Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture

Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung
Agency overview
Formed	1 May 1934 (1934-05-01)
Dissolved	23 May 1945 (1945-05-23)
Jurisdiction	Government of Nazi Germany
Minister responsible	Bernhard Rust

TheReich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture (German:Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung, also unofficially known as the "Reich Education Ministry" (German:Reichserziehungsministerium), or "REM") existed from 1934 until 1945 under the leadership ofBernhard Rust and was responsible for unifying the education system ofNazi Germany and aligning it with the goals of Nazi leadership.

The REM was the successor to the formerPreußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung (Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture), creating for the first time in Germany a centralized and hierarchical institution in control of the Reich's education sector. In 1934, the REM took over from theReichsinnenministerium (Reich Interior Ministry) the supervision of colleges and universities in Germany, as well as research institutions such as thePhysikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (abbreviated PTR; translation: Reich Physical and Technical Institute.); today, the PTR is known as thePhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt.^[1]

No.	Portrait	Minister of Culture	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Party	Cabinet	Ref.
1		Rust, BernhardBernhard Rust (1883–1945)	1 May 1934	30 April 1945	10 years, 333 days	NSDAP	Hitler	[1]
2		Scheel, GustavGustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979)	30 April 1945	3 May 1945	3 days	NSDAP	Goebbels	–
3		Stuckart, WilhelmWilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953)	3 May 1945	23 May 1945	20 days	NSDAP	Flensburg Government	[2]

Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office
	Theodor Vahlen	1934	1937
–	Otto Wacker [de]	1937	1939
	Rudolf Mentzel	May 1939	1945

• Hentschel, Klaus, editor, and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator.Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996)

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