Tax Museum

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The German Tax Museum was the permanent exhibition of the financial history collection in the Federal Finance Academy in Brühl . The museum was unique in the world in this unusual form. It showed the history of public finances , especially taxes from the 3rd millennium BC. Until today.

The collection was created in 1957 as a small compilation of documents, pictures and devices in the building of the Freudenstadt tax office . After a visit by the then Federal Finance Minister Franz Etzel , it was taken over by the Federal Finance Academy in 1961 , set up as a permanent exhibition after moving to Brühl in 1993 and reopened in November 1995 by Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel .

The structure of the collection tries to work out the different perspectives on the subject of taxes. On the one hand the view of the tax authorities , who need the tax payments of their citizens in order to fulfill the state tasks, on the other hand the perspective of the taxpayer, who perceives the taxes sometimes only as a chore.

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The Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration (HS Bund) required additional lecture halls at the Brühl location at short notice to train young civil servants who were additionally hired by the federal authorities, especially in connection with the management of the influx of refugees . The Federal Finance Academy (BFA) helped with the provision of up to four lecture halls in Brühl. Since the BFA required the full extent of its existing lecture halls for the training and advanced training of tax officials, help could only be provided by preparing the rooms in which the tax museum and, in part, the financial history archive were housed.

The exhibits of the tax museum that have been exhibited in Brühl so far, which “tell” 5000 years of tax history, have been digitally documented for teaching purposes in such a way that they can be used for financial history education in a target group-oriented manner. Part of it is directly accessible online as a museum guide entitled “5000 Years of Taxes and Customs”.

In December 2015, the German Customs Museum in Hamburg took over exhibits from the Tax Museum in Brühl. The German Customs Museum "should take care of the proper handling of the exhibits from the tax museum" and, if necessary, expand the collection through new acquisitions.

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  1. ↑ Bernd Imgrund , Nina Osmers : 111 places in the Cologne area that you have to see , Verlag Emons, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-777-7 , place 24
  2. ↑ a b [1] Press release Federal Ministry of Finance on the dissolution of July 7, 2014 (accessed on March 3, 2018)

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '53.94 "  N , 6 ° 52' 59.4"  E