The Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture (, also unofficially known as the "Reich Education Ministry" (), or "REM") existed from 1934 until 1945 under the leadership of

Bernhard Rust Bernhard Rust (30 September 1883 – 8 May 1945) was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture ('' Reichserziehungsminister'') in Nazi Germany. Claudia Koonz, ''The Nazi Conscience'', p 134 A combination of school administrator and ze ...

and was responsible for unifying the education system of

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

and aligning it with the goals of Nazi leadership.

Background

The REM was the successor to the former ''Preußisches 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 the ''Reichsinnenministerium'' (Reich Interior Ministry) the supervision of colleges and universities in Germany, as well as research institutions such as the ''Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt'' (abbreviated PTR; translation: Reich Physical and Technical Institute.); today, the PTR is known as the ''

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the national metrology institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, with scientific and technical service tasks. It is a higher federal authority and a public-law institution directly under fed ...

''.Hentschel, 1996, Appendix B

Administrators

Heads of the ''REM Amt für Wissenschaft'' (Science Office)

Bibliography

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

Notes

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