Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests (Prussia)

Frederick William IV chose the city's general counsel, Rudolf Eduard Julius Gierke, to appoint as Minister of State.

The ministry's areas of responsibility were gradually expanded to include the stud system (on August 11, 1848), the consultation on veterinary police matters (on June 22, 1849), the dike system (on November 26, 1849), the co-supervision of the pension banks (on March 2, 1850) and the implementation of the hunting police law (on March 7, 1850).

With effect from the decrees of April 10, 1874 and August 13, 1876, the ministry was assigned the supervision of agricultural credit institutions and participation in the supervision of non-agricultural basic credit institutions.

The department for agricultural and stud farm affairs was responsible for supervising the state economics college, the agricultural colleges, the higher regional cultural court, the central moor commission, the agricultural credit institutions, the main and state stud farms as well as the technical deputation for the veterinary sector along with the veterinary universities in Berlin.

[1] After World War I, the ministry continued to exist in the Free State of Prussia with offices at Leipziger Platz, which was expanded between 1913 and 1919 with an extension at Königgrätzer Straße (from 1930 Stresemannstraße).