The Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik (Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data) is an institute rich in tradition, with its earliest predecessors founded all the way back in the early nineteenth century. Its range of tasks chiefly includes the compilation, processing, interpretation, and publication of statistical information. This study will focus primarily on the years immediately following the Second World War – roughly between 1945 and 1960. That period saw both an administrative reorganization as well as an extensive reorientation in terms of the office’s areas of endeavor. The following matters will therefore be at the center of this examination: The executive staff is the first focal point of the study, a group that was chiefly comprised of experts in the field. What did that mean for the administrative culture at the office? What patterns of thinking and worldviews were characteristic of the executive staff members? A second area of focus lies in the reconfiguration of the distribution of tasks that took place after the fall of the “Third Reich”, as the lack of central governmental authorities led to a temporary vacuum in public statistics. How did the Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik deal with the resulting additional freedom of action? How did the renegotiation of competences unfold on the road towards the Federal Republic? And third: Statistics are by no means an objective depiction of reality. On the contrary, they always also involve subjective components and transport views and opinions. To what extent did these become part of political decision-making processes? It is, for example, readily apparent that the executives of the office pursued economic statistics with particular intensity. A fourth focal point of the study lies in changes in the practice of statistics. How did statistical surveys and the use of data develop after 1945? By addressing these matters, this study will provide further insights within the framework of the broader project on “Democratic Culture and the Nazi Past: Policies, Personnel, Impact in Bavaria, 1945-1975”.