Fonds Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 11125 - 11125 Ministry of Culture and Public Education

681,15 (nur lfm)

History: The Ministry of Culture and Public Education began its activity on 01.12.1831. It was the successor of the Privy Council, the Consistories or the Council of Churches and was the supreme state church and school authority, unless matters were reserved for the Ministers of State acting on behalf of the King in Evangelicis. The Ministry was also responsible for the universities, colleges and technical colleges, insofar as the Ministry of the Interior was not responsible.<br /><br /> In November 1918 the competence for the former Court Theatre as well as for the former Royal Collections for Science and Art was taken over. Some of her leadership had already been in the hands of the minister through personal union. In general, art matters were now concentrated at this ministry. After 1919 state and church were clearly separated, 1923 followed the renaming in Ministry for people education. The Ministry ceased its activities in May 1945.<br /><br />The inventory contains a considerable amount of documents from predecessors. For art matters, reference is also made to the inventory 10736 Ministry of the Interior, Section 20.<br /><br />>For further information, see 2. Kingdom and Free State of Saxony 1831 - 1945<br /><br />>Content: Administration of the Ministry.- Church Affairs.- School Authorities.- Teacher Affairs.- General Educational Affairs.- School Affairs - Technical Schools - Dresden Technical College - Tharandt Forestry University - Freiberg Mining Academy - Leipzig University - General Directorate of the Collections for Art and Science - Individual Collections - Foundations - Meissen, Grimma and Dresden Regional Schools.<br />Unlisted: Contracts for schools, foundations, church foundation file (part).<br /><br /> detailed introduction: Findbucheinleitung von Gerhard Schmidt, 1959:<br /><br />Until 1831 the supervision of church and school affairs in Saxony was carried out by the church council and the consistory in Dresden as well as by other regional consistories. Above them stood the Privy Council, or since 1817 the Privy Council, as the superior authority. At the same time, the conference ministers of this higher authority held the mandate in Evangelicis and thus represented the Catholic sovereign in Protestant church and school affairs.<br /><br />When the specialist ministries were introduced in Saxony in 1831, the Ministry of Education and Culture was founded as the highest state church and school authority. It had state control over the churches of all denominations. Apart from the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Catholic, Reformed and Jewish creeds were permitted in Saxony from the beginning of the 19th century, and since 1846 also the German Catholics and later other sects. For the Protestant churches and schools, the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs also had overall supervision over internal church affairs, i.e. over worship services, the preservation of the church constitution, the employment of clergy and teachers, and the handling of church discipline. Therefore, the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs had to belong to the Protestant denomination.<br /><br />The Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs directly supervised the University of Leipzig, the two state schools Meißen and Grimma as well as the Prokuraturrentamt Meißen. It also administered most of the scholarship foundations, while the foundations for the poor and sick were administered by the Ministry of the Interior. The spiritual jurisdiction of the consistories passed to the judicial authorities in 1831, the exercise of press and book censorship to the Ministry of the Interior in 1836. The mission in Evangelicis and thus the sovereign power over the Evangelical Lutheran Church was assumed in 1831 by the Minister of Culture and at least two other Protestant State Ministers. In 1837, the regulations on the ministerial relations between the Ministry of Culture and Public Education and the state ministers commissioned in Evangelicis regulated the cases in which the ministry had to give lectures to the ministers.<br /><br />After the old consistories had been abolished in 1835, the four district administrations in Dresden, Leipzig, Zwickau and Bautzen were appointed as central authorities. The district directorates were each chaired by the district director and had a special church and school delegation consisting of a spiritual and a secular council. The district authorities were in charge of the church and school inspections, which included the Superintendent and a secular co-inspector. Between the Ministry of Culture and the district administrations stood a purely spiritual state consistory, which was above all an examination and ordination authority and incidentally had only an advisory vote.<br /><br />First of all, the ecclesiastical tasks of the Ministry of Culture and Public Education had priority over school matters, as can be seen from the name. In 1873, however, a new Protestant-Lutheran State Consistory was established, the scope of responsibilities of which went far beyond that of the previous State Consistory.<br /><br />All ecclesiastical tasks previously assigned to the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs were transferred to this State Consistory, as were the ecclesiastical tasks of the District Directorates. In the lower instances, too, the church inspections led by the Superintendents were separated from the school inspections to which the governor, city council or district school inspector belonged. Since this separation of the church administration from school affairs, the secret church and school councils of the ministry of education and cultural affairs have only held the title of secret school council. The school matters previously dealt with by the now dissolved church and school inspections of the district authorities were taken over by the Ministry of Culture itself, so that the school inspections were now directly subordinated to it. Thus, in 1873, the entire administration of the churches and schools was separated, having been united since the Middle Ages. However, even in purely spiritual matters, the State Consistory was still subject to the Ministers of State appointed by the King and appointed in Evangelicis, of whom the Minister of Culture was best acquainted with ecclesiastical matters and therefore the decisive factor. A complete separation of church and state did not take place until 1919. From then on, the ecclesiastical tasks of the ministry withdrew even more strongly and consisted only in a state right of supervision over all religious societies. It was only as a consequence of this development that the Ministry of Culture and Public Education was renamed the Ministry of Popular Education in 1923 according to its sphere of activity.<br /><br />In the 19th century the Ministry of Culture was the smallest Saxon ministry after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the beginning he had only one minister of state, three secret church and school councillors as well as one Protestant and one Catholic assessor; the office staff was small. By 1932 the number of councils had risen to about 20. The Saxon school system was developed and improved within a century so that the business of the Ministry multiplied. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs also took over individual tasks from other authorities. In 1876 the Ministry of the Interior supervised the Dresden Polytechnic, which in 1890 was elevated to the status of a technical university. From 1918 onwards, the court theatres continued to be run under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. The General Directorate of the Royal Collections for Art and Science was dissolved and its tasks were transferred to the Ministry of Culture on 1 January 1919. In 1929, the Tharandt Forestry College was affiliated with the Dresden Technical University and thus passed from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of National Education. In 1931, a large part of the vocational schools came from the Ministry of Economics to the Volksbildung; in 1937, all the specialized schools exempted in 1931 followed. The supervision of the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden was taken over by the Ministry of Education in 1933 from the Ministry of the Interior. The affairs of the Freiberg Mining Academy were transferred in 1935 from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Economics and from there in 1936 to the Ministry of National Education. Thus, almost all the specialist educational institutions were gradually transferred from the initially responsible specialist administrations to the Ministry of National Education. Since 1937, the Ministry had essentially been in charge of the teaching operations of all schools, as well as the entire education system and scientific research.<br /><br />After 1871, the Ministry of Culture maintained an independent position vis-à-vis the Reich authorities. It was not until 1919 that the Reich Ministry of the Interior took over the legislation for the area of popular education. In 1933 the Reich Ministry for Education, Training and Science was founded. The independence of the Saxon Ministry of National Education was thus increasingly restricted in favour of the Reich.<br /><br />The registry of the Ministry was kept in a main archive body with 46 locations and in a number of special registry departments. The latter existed from 1831 onwards or were only established later. The present collection also contains pre-files of authorities whose tasks were taken over by the Ministry of Culture.<br /><br />The collection of the Ministry in the Saxon State Main Archives is arranged as follows:<br /><br />I. Previous files: Vol. 1 [Outline point 01 Previous files] (No. 1 - 7185)<br />Facts of the following authorities:<br />District offices Dresden, Leipzig, Zwickau, Bautzen (sporadically since the 16th century) Century, until 1874)<br />Upper Consistory and Council of Churches in Dresden (1602 - 1832)<br />Evangelical State Consistory (1835 - 1874)<br />General Consistory Glauchau (1744 - 1878)<br />Foundations (1546 - 1876)<br />Jungfrauenkloster St.. Jacobi in Freiberg (1542 - 1844)<br />Saxon Disciplinary Chamber (1880 - 1897)<br /><br />II. Main body of archives: Vol. 3 - 5 [Section 03 Main body of archives] (No. 10284 - 15061/1)<br />General church and school affairs (Table of contents for Vol. 3 - 5 in Vol. 3).<br />A alphabetical register volume for Vol. 3 - 5.<br /><br />III. Special registry departments of the ministry: Vol. 2, 6, 7<br /> Vol. 2: (No. 10001 - 10283/11)<br />University of Leipzig.<br />General university affairs (1933 - 1944) only 11 volumes of files<br />In volume 2 - 5 many sub-numbers.<br /><br />vol. 6: (No. 15062 - 18791)<br />A) Universities:<br />Technische Hochschule Dresden<br />Forsthochschule Tharandt (1885 - 1945)<br />Bergakademie Freiberg (1931 - 1945)<br />B) Fachschulen: Business, trade and art schools, including universities and secondary schools<br /><br /> vol. 7: (No. 18792 - )<br />C) Collections for Art and Science<br />D) Foundations<br />E) Regional Schools Meissen, Grimma, Dresden, Prokuratur Meissen<br />F) Elementary Schools and Churches in Individual Places<br />G) Cashiers:<br />Kultusministerialkasse<br />General Lehrer-, Schullehrerwitwen- und Waisenpensionskasse bei der Kultusministerialkasse<br />H) Ministry business diaries with alphabetical indexes<br /><br />Departments A, B, C also contain records from the time when the institutions concerned were still supervised by other authorities.<br /><br />The holdings of the Ministry of National Education were transferred to the Saxon State Main Archives in several levies before and after the Second World War with relatively small losses, and here they form one of the most extensive ministerial holdings, which fills almost the entire Room 5 D. The collection of the Ministry of National Education was also transferred to the Saxon State Main Archives in the form of a collection of books. Volumes 2 - 5 were arranged and listed by Dr. Werner Ohnsorge and Christa Köhler according to the old registry order. Volumes 6 and 7 completed the order of the entire holdings in January 1959 by the undersigned.<br /><br />Gerhard Schmidt<br /><br /><br />>Introduction to Volumes 3 - 5 by Ch. Köhler, 1950:<br /><br />>The archival records recorded in Volumes 3 - 5 originate from the ministerial archive and are administrative files of the former Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and now the Ministry of National Education. Dr. Ohnsorge was commissioned with the processing of this so-called "main archive body" and had to interrupt his work as a result of his appointment to the Wehrmacht. It was not until January 1948 that I was able to continue the order of the holdings and to complete it in December 1950.<br /><br />The newly compiled finding aid itself has some gaps, as files were lost in 1945 due to fire or in alternative places. Individual archival documents were also handed over to the State Consistory. On the other hand, pieces of files were brought here which, with regard to their archivability, were not yet suitable for storage in the provincial archives. As a result, the holdings issued in the first half of the 19th century (1831) extend into modern times (1944). In the current find book they carry the designation: Ministry for people education [Note of the editors: The author uses here still one today obsolete inventory designation]. No. 10284 - 15061. As far as documents were still inserted into processed locomotives, they received sub-numbers (e.g. Ministry of National Education No. 12694/1). Since there are only a few tax registers of the Volksbildungsministerium and unfortunately the second part of the repertory was burned, [...] an attempt was made [...] to restore the order of the file material on the basis of the earlier signatures. The other name "Arch. Sect. ... No. ..." on the file covers, which were probably only allocated on an interim basis, [...]<br /><br />Köhler [...]<br /><br /><br />>Comments on "05 Fachschulen":<br />The item contains commercial, trade and art schools, including universities and colleges.<br /><br />On further files on Fachschulen in the inventory 10736 Ministry of the Interior, No. 1664 - 1684 as well as 8219 - 8886 are referred to.<br /><br /><br />>Comments on "13 Supplement":<br /><br />This part is based on the indexing data of a supplement taken over from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, which was recorded in 1991 by Gert Schirok in a find file.<br /><br />The focus of the tradition lies in the 1930s to the mid-1940s. Individual files date back to 1829 and to 1948.<br /><br />>Comments on files about the Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Applied Arts and the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts:<br /><br />The notes on the contents originate from the "Inventory of Written Sources on the History of the Dresden University of Fine Arts and its Predecessor Institutions (1764-1990)", which was compiled by the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 2001 to 2003.

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