The below is a list of Ministers of the Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs of Prussia who was often, unofficially, referred to as the Minister of Culture.
See main article: Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs (Prussia). The Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs was a Prussian minister in the State Ministry. The ministry was created in 1817 from the former department "for culture and public education" that existed from December 1808 to November 1817 in the Ministry of Interior. The term Minister of Culture was not used in official addresses but existed under various names and responsibilities until 1945.Das preußische Kultusministerium als Staatsbehörde und gesellschaftliche Agentur (1817–1934), mit Beiträgen von Bärbel Holtz, Christina Rathgeber, Hartwin Spenkuch, Reinhold Zilch. 6 Bände. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009 ff. (Acta Borussica. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe: Preußen als Kulturstaat, hrsg. im Auftrag der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften von Wolfgang Neugebauer).
The first Minister was Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein who is known for reform of the Prussian educational system.
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein | 1817 | 1838 | |||
| Adalbert von Ladenberg | 1840 | 1840 | |||
| Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn | 1840 | 1848 | |||
| Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar | 1848 | 1848 | |||
| Johann Karl Rodbertus | 1848 | 1848 | |||
| Adalbert von Ladenberg | 1848 | 1850 | |||
| Karl Otto von Raumer | 1850 | 1858 | |||
| Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg | 1858 | 1862 | |||
| Heinrich von Mühler | 1862 | 1872 | |||
| Adalbert Falk | 1872 | 1879 | |||
| Robert Viktor von Puttkamer | 1879 | 1881 | |||
| Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler | 1881 | 1891 | |||
| Robert von Zedlitz-Trützschler | 1891 | 1892 | |||
| Robert Bosse | 1892 | 1899 | |||
| Konrad von Studt | 1899 | 1907 | |||
| Ludwig Holle | 1907 | 1909 | |||
| August von Trott zu Solz | 1909 | 1917 | |||
| Friedrich Schmidt-Ott | 1917 | 1918 | |||
| Adolph Hoffmann | 1918 | 1919 | |||
| Konrad Haenisch | 1919 | 1921 | |||
| Carl Heinrich Becker | 1921 | 1921 | |||
| Otto Boelitz | 1921 | 1925 | |||
| Carl Heinrich Becker | 1925 | 1930 | |||
| Adolf Grimme | 1930 | 1932 | |||
| Aloys Lammers | 1932 | 1932 | (as Reich Commissioner from Jul.–Oct. 1932) | ||
| 1932 | 1933 | (as state commissioner after the so-called "Preußenschlag") | |||
| Bernhard Rust | 1933 | 1945 | (also Reich Minister of Education since 1934) |