The 1831 Constitution of Saxony established 6 ministries, which each reported to the Diet (parliament). The War Office was one of these ministries.[1]
In 1866, following the North German Confederation Treaty, the Kingdom of Saxony entered the North German Confederation.[2] In 1870, the November Treaties were signed to admit several southern states into the new German Confederation. Representatives from Saxony were included, and the result of the treaties included provisions permitting Saxony to retain its own ministry of war.[3]
Following World War I, the German Empire collapsed in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. During the revolution in Saxony, Minister of War Gustav Neuring was killed by wounded and disabled war veterans who had heard a rumor that their benefits would be cut.[4][5]
After the revolution, the new Weimar Republic underwent significant centralisation, which resulted in the abolition of the war ministries of individual states and their replacement with a single federal ministry of defence.[3]
