History of tradition: The Ministry of the Interior was founded in 1808. He was in charge of the General Study Commission, the Medical Commission and the State Institution Commission. After the reorganizations of the years 1809 and 1812, the 1st department was responsible for the areas of sovereignty, police and economy, while the 2nd department was responsible for Protestant and Catholic Church affairs, which were dealt with in the respective church sections. After only a brief contact with the Ministry of Justice in 1854-1859, economic powers were transferred to the Ministry of Trade, established in 1860, which was dissolved again in 1881. In order to compensate for the business area thus regained, responsibility for culture, education, science and the arts has now been transferred to the Ministry of Justice. The separation of the Ministry of Labour in 1919 lasted only until 1924, when the war destruction of the Ministry of the Interior in 1945, during which the registry was also destroyed, meant an irreplaceable loss for the tradition from the first half of the 20th century. Processing: The previous card index was digitised as part of a DFG project in 2012. The title recordings were checked, supplemented if necessary and rearranged. The previous tape repertory on the airplane damage of the Second World War (1984) and the thematic inventory of the Central Office of the Agricultural Association (1990) were incorporated into the finding aid.