Note by other hand: Regierungsrat Dr. Gruner centre , DΓ€uble, Funke, Schosser, Diehl,? The Ministry of the Interior, created by the Decree of 10 October , was the supreme head of the internal administration of the Land, insofar as it did not fall within the remit of other ministries or the State Ministry.
The Ministry was in charge of the supervision of all local authorities and was entrusted with the management of the sovereign police force and the supervision of all police authorities and institutions. His tasks also included the handling of economic and general agricultural matters, including the regulation of property, farm and day labour relations, transport, association and press matters, the administration of roads and hydraulic engineering as well as social services.
In addition, the Ministry's portfolio included citizenship matters, border and electoral matters, as well as civilian administration matters related to the military. Essentially, the business circle of the Ministry remained unchanged until It was extended in to include the civil status system. In , the Ministry of Justice, Department of Education, transferred the affairs of the technical and commercial technical and further education school system from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of the Interior.
During the First World War, the Ministry was responsible for controlling the food supply and the war economy, and after the war it was responsible for civilian demobilization.
In the newly founded Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests see 5. There are gaps in the file tradition. Major losses were caused by the fire in the government building in At the beginning of , files from to were deliberately destroyed in the Ministry.
