Cultures of Administration. The Imperial Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR Between Continuity and Political System Dependency 1919-1975

该项目比较了魏玛共和国、纳粹德国、联邦共和国和德意志民主共和国的内政部，并调查了第一次世界大战结束到20世纪70年代中期这些国家行政文化的连续性和断裂。与以往的研究不同，本项目特别关注日常行政程序及其在两个方面的象征意义和解释。一方面，该项目旨在通过对人员的统计分析来展示政权更迭期间人员结构的变化。它将提供准确的人事结构数据，并解释从以前的政治制度中吸收员工或用新的年轻同事取代他们的行政意图。另一方面，该项目审查了各部的内部和外部沟通。他们的员工使用哪些口头和书面沟通形式，他们如何通过沟通反映等级制度，基本结构和象征性理解，以及他们如何以及在何种情况下与外部人员和机构联系？总之，人员结构和沟通有助于我们对20世纪德国国家和行政的发展以及四种不同政治制度的纠缠有新的认识。

This project compares the ministries of the interior of the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the Federal Republic and the GDR and investigates the continuities und ruptures in their administrative cultures between the end of World War I and the mid-1970s. Unlike previous research, this project pays special attention to everyday administrative routines and their symbolic meanings und interpretations in two areas. On the one hand, the project aims to show the transformations of personnel structure between the regime changes by analyzing the personnel statistically. It will present precise data of personnel structure and interpret the administrative intention either to take over employees from the previous political systems or to replace them with new and younger colleagues. On the other hand, the project examines the internal and external communication of the ministries. Which forms of oral and written communication did their employees use, how did they reflect hierarchies, basic structures and symbolic understandings through communication, and how and under which circumstances did they contact external people and institutions? In conclusion, the personnel structure and the communication help us gain new insights into the development of the state and the administration as well as the entanglements of four different political systems in 20th century Germany.