Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 10851 - 10851 Ministry of Finance

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History: The Ministry of Finance was established in 1831. It succeeded the Secret College of Finance. His tasks included state budget management, tax and customs administration as well as domain and forest administration. The Ministry was also responsible for the overall supervision of mining, building construction, road construction and postal services. Since the Secret Financial Archive was under the control of the Ministry of Finance until 1875 and was only later merged with the Saxon State Archives, the first files were handed over by the Ministry to the Financial Archive. To this day, they are included in the 10036 Financial Archive. A not inconsiderable part of the files located in the Ministry of Finance in 1945 burned on 13.02.1945.<br /><br />For further information see 2. Kingdom and Free State of Saxony 1831 - 1945<br /><br />>nhalt: Division I: A. Allgemeine Verfassungssachen.- B. Direct taxes - C. Indirect Taxes and Duties.<br />Division II: A. Domain Matters and Intra-Country Matters.- B. Mountain stuff. C. Forestry.<br />Department III: 1. building.- 2. road.- 3. postal.<br />Other registries: 1. finance.box office and finance accountancy until 1920.- 2. finance accountancy from 1920.- 3. finance.accountancy.- 4. budget.office.- 5. technical.supreme.control.office.<br />additions: Dept. 1. Imperial Legislation and State Legislation - Dept. 2. Imperial Budget and State Budget - Dept. 3. State Property, Borrowing and State Debt - Dept. 4. Cash and Accounting, Cheque and Giro Transactions, Savings Banks Transactions - Dept. 5. Banking, Stock Exchange and Minting - Dept. 6. Organisation of State Administration - Dept. 3. Dept. 7. execution of the contract on the dispute between the Free State of Saxony and the former Saxon royal house - Dept. 8. economic policy.<br /><br /> detailed introduction: 1. history of the authority and its registration system<br /><br />>two main tasks were assigned to the Ministry of Finance: Supervision of the income and management of the State property and the organization of the tax system, i.e. taxes and customs duties, since these two sources were mainly used to meet the monetary needs of the State. Until 1831 the Geheime Finanzkollegium, created in 1782, had stood at the head of the various financial authorities of the state.<a href="#B01"> <sup id="A01">[01]</sup></a> The new ministry saw its task above all in simplifying and clarifying the organization of the financial authorities in the middle and lower instance, while the internal structure and mode of operation of the new authority is largely identical to that of the previous Geheimes Finanzkollegium.<a href="#B02"> <sup id="A02">[02]</sup></a> After 1831, the division into two departments created by the rescript of 5.9.1815 was retained. In the first department all matters of a general nature were dealt with: State budget, state treasury matters, constitution of the ministry, personnel matters, taxes and duties in general, relations with the Federation, later with the Reich; also included in this department were: road, water and bank construction, postal, salt and lottery matters. The second main department, which by its very nature had a long history, dealt with all matters of state land ownership in chamber estates, domains, forests, land plots, vineyards, mining and metallurgical works, all matters of state enterprises and manufactories, coinage, forestry and hunting matters, supervision of the Mining and Forestry Academy and the Agricultural College. While the second department kept a certain closed and uniform character, the first department had to cope with a variety of different tasks, which in the long run necessitated the separation of the technical affairs and the establishment of a new third department in view of the stormy industrial and traffic development. This third department, founded after 1849, was responsible for public works and transport, road, bridge, railway, hydraulic and building construction, supervision of the operation of state railways, post and telegraphy and examinations for the higher state service in the aforementioned technical subjects. It is in the nature of things that the branches of public services supervised by the 3rd Department, as a result of their powerful development, increasingly urged towards independence, so in 1868 the post office and telegraphy, as far as the central and leading authorities were concerned, separated according to the provisions of the peace treaty of 1866, i.e. partially, and after the end of the World War 1919 as well as the state railways completely from the supervision by the Ministry of Finance. The division into three main departments has essentially been retained for the period from 1850 to 1920. Since the majority of the volumes listed here belong to this period, the division into three main sections has also been adopted for the arrangement in the new index. Around 1910, the distribution of the affairs arising was as follows: 1. department: state budget, state coffers, accounting and coinage, constitutional matters, personnel matters, duties and taxes, lottery matters, state debts, land pension, state cultural pension and old-age pension bank; 2. department: chamber estates, forests, plots of land, vineyards, buildings, state mining and smelting works, state enterprises, mining, topographical maps, supervision of mining and forestry academies and mining schools; 3. department: state administration, state coffers, accounting and coinage, constitutional matters, personnel matters, taxes and duties, lottery matters, state debts, buildings, state mining and smelting works, state enterprises, mining, topographical maps, supervision of mining and forestry academies and mining schools; 3. department: mining and forestry academies, and the mining and forestry schools. Department: public works and means of transport, road, bridge, railway, structural and hydraulic engineering, electricity police, post office and telegraphy, insofar as the Reich was not responsible.<br /><br />The year 1919 marks the end of the World War and represents a significant turning point in the history of the authorities of the Ministry of Finance. The most important fact is probably the transfer of the customs and tax administration, the railways and the remaining competences in the field of postal services to the Reich. In addition there were new tasks such as the conflicts with the former ruling house and the special social tasks after the lost war and as a result of it. In 1919 a new 4th department was set up in which the state tax matters, the customs and imperial tax matters, insofar as the state was still responsible, the dispute with the Reich and the municipalities, the legal cases of the state treasury, the state surveying system, the affairs of the unemployed and housing welfare were dealt with. By the transition of the customs and tax administration to the Reich the whole extensive complex of the customs and tax matters in the 1st department was cancelled. The former 3rd department, which was limited to building construction and civil engineering after the departure of the means of transport, thus virtually dissolved itself. Supervision of state construction was transferred to the 2nd division, which now dealt with domain, forestry, mining and construction matters. The above-mentioned 4th department thus replaced the 3rd (as of 1925).<a href="#B03"> <sup id="A03">[03]</sup></a> Essentially, this state of classification was maintained until after 1933.<br /><br />In addition to the large main departments mentioned above, there were also some smaller special departments with special tasks. Among the oldest were financial accounting and accounting expeditions. The Financial Accounting Department, after 1935 called the correct Budget Office, dealt with all matters falling within the scope of the practical implementation of the State Budget. The financial accounting expeditions supervised and audited all special funds and special revenues, with the exception of those falling within the remit of the Customs and Tax Directorate. Around 1910 they were divided into the following departments: A. Direct taxes; B. Road and waterway construction; C. Railway and postal services; D. Building construction, domains, intrades, lottery; E. Forsten; F. Berg-, Hütten- und Münzsachen. After the World War, the financial accounting expeditions were combined into a single financial accounting office. The supervision and the execution of all cash transactions of the Ministry of Finance itself was carried out by the main treasury, named Landeshauptkasse after 1919. The Financial Payments Office and the deposit and deposit main cash office were merged into it around 1910. A special pension office was set up after 1919 for all matters relating to pensions. From the domain surveying office and the tax surveying after 1919 the Land Surveying Office developed as a subordinate authority of the Ministry of Finance, the tax surveying office was already managed as a subordinate authority since 1905.<a href="#B04"> <sup id="A04">[04]</sup></a><br /><br />The offices of the Ministry were located in Dresden at the Schlossplatz. From 1896 to 1900, a new ministerial building was erected on the banks of the Elbe on the Neustädter side opposite the Brühlsche Terrasse, which also accommodated a number of authorities subordinate to the Ministry of Finance. Around 1930, the following were also located there: the State Forestry Directorate, the Building Construction Directorate, the Road and Water Construction Directorate, the Saxon Tax Directorate, the State Property Office, the State Surveying Office and the Old Age and State Cultural Pension Bank.<br /><br />The following should be noted about the working methods and course of business of the Ministry of Finance: All correspondence from the Ministry passed through the Ministerial Chancellery and was received and delivered from the Entrance and Exit Offices. The Office's Executive Board allocated the individual letters received to the secretaries acting as Registrand Officers by subject area. They selected the corresponding procedures from the existing files and presented them to the speakers, according to whose instructions they delivered concepts. The approved concepts were written in the office and then delivered by the departure office. Important in this context is the existence of the so-called

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