Reich Office of the Interior
The Reich Office of the Interior (also Reich Office of the Interior ) was the Ministry of the Interior in the German Empire .
history
At the suggestion of the Reich Chancellor , it emerged from the Reich Chancellery, the former Federal Chancellery (not to be confused with the Reich Chancellery , the authority of the Chancellor from 1878) by an imperial decree .
Like the other offices, it was directly subordinate to the Reich Chancellor. The seat of the office was in Berlin, its management was under a State Secretary , who from 1881 to 1916 always held the office of Vice Chancellor .
With the law on provisional imperial power of February 11, 1919, the Reich Office became the Reich Ministry of the Interior ; so it was called in the Weimar Republic .
The State Secretaries of the Reich Office of the Interior
| Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|
| Karl Hofmann | 1879 | 1880 |
| Karl Heinrich von Boetticher | 1880 | 1897 |
| Arthur Graf von Posadowsky-Wehner | 1897 | 1907 |
| Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg | 1907 | 1909 |
| Clemens von Delbrück | 1909 | 1916 |
| Karl Helfferich | 1916 | 1917 |
| Max Wallraf | 1917 | 1918 |
| Karl Trimborn | 1918 | 1918 |
The Reichsministerialblatt
The official gazette of the Reichsamt published for the purpose of public announcements was the Central-Blatt from 1880 and from 1903 the Zentralblatt for the German Reich (ZBl, ZDB -ID 200990-0 ), which had already been published by the Reich Chancellery from 1873 to 1879. In this capacity, the Reich Ministry of the Interior it was from 1923, the Reichsministerialblatt (RMBL, ZDB -ID 200991-2 ) follow.
literature
- Ernst Ritter (arr.): 100 years of the interior department. From the Reich Office to the Federal Ministry . Federal Ministry of the Interior, Bonn, 2nd, through. 1981 edition.
