Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Public Works (Prussia)

In 1740, the Prussian King Frederick II founded the "Department for Factories, Commerce and Manufacturing" when he took office, which corresponded to a ministry of economics in the administrative structure at the time.

[1] In the first half of the 19th century, this area of responsibility was managed as a department (section) of the Ministry of the Interior.

[1] The service building was the former gold and silver factory in Berlin's Friedrichstadt, Wilhelmstrasse 79.

Its responsibilities, including the remaining responsibilities for the railway system, largely fell back to the Ministry of Commerce, which at that time was called the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forestry and of Trade and Commerce.

[5] In 1932, the name Ministry of Economics and Labor was introduced under the Prussian coup d'état (German: Preußenschlag).