diff --git a/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/logical/enum_/mod.rs b/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/logical/enum_/mod.rs
index e143a59a7f7b..5279099f1cd7 100644
--- a/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/logical/enum_/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/logical/enum_/mod.rs
@@ -85,16 +85,12 @@ impl EnumChunkedBuilder {
         let length = arr.len() as IdxSize;
         let ca = unsafe {
             UInt32Chunked::new_with_dims(
-                Arc::new(Field::new(
-                    self.name,
-                    DataType::Enum(Some(self.rev.clone()), self.ordering),
-                )),
+                Arc::new(Field::new(self.name, DataType::UInt32)),
                 vec![Box::new(arr)],
                 length,
                 null_count,
             )
         };
-
         // SAFETY: keys and values are in bounds
         unsafe {
             CategoricalChunked::from_cats_and_rev_map_unchecked(ca, self.rev, true, self.ordering)
diff --git a/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/ops/aggregate/mod.rs b/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/ops/aggregate/mod.rs
index 5b3c0b5f53d7..0a059eb54274 100644
--- a/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/ops/aggregate/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-core/src/chunked_array/ops/aggregate/mod.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use num_traits::{Float, One, ToPrimitive, Zero};
 use polars_compute::float_sum;
 use polars_compute::min_max::MinMaxKernel;
 use polars_utils::min_max::MinMax;
+use polars_utils::sync::SyncPtr;
 pub use quantile::*;
 pub use var::*;
 
@@ -541,12 +542,54 @@ impl CategoricalChunked {
 #[cfg(feature = "dtype-categorical")]
 impl ChunkAggSeries for CategoricalChunked {
     fn min_reduce(&self) -> Scalar {
-        let av: AnyValue = self.min_categorical().into();
-        Scalar::new(DataType::String, av.into_static())
+        match self.dtype() {
+            DataType::Enum(r, _) => match self.physical().min() {
+                None => Scalar::new(self.dtype().clone(), AnyValue::Null),
+                Some(v) => {
+                    let RevMapping::Local(arr, _) = &**r.as_ref().unwrap() else {
+                        unreachable!()
+                    };
+                    Scalar::new(
+                        self.dtype().clone(),
+                        AnyValue::EnumOwned(
+                            v,
+                            r.as_ref().unwrap().clone(),
+                            SyncPtr::from_const(arr as *const _),
+                        ),
+                    )
+                },
+            },
+            DataType::Categorical(_, _) => {
+                let av: AnyValue = self.min_categorical().into();
+                Scalar::new(DataType::String, av.into_static())
+            },
+            _ => unreachable!(),
+        }
     }
     fn max_reduce(&self) -> Scalar {
-        let av: AnyValue = self.max_categorical().into();
-        Scalar::new(DataType::String, av.into_static())
+        match self.dtype() {
+            DataType::Enum(r, _) => match self.physical().max() {
+                None => Scalar::new(self.dtype().clone(), AnyValue::Null),
+                Some(v) => {
+                    let RevMapping::Local(arr, _) = &**r.as_ref().unwrap() else {
+                        unreachable!()
+                    };
+                    Scalar::new(
+                        self.dtype().clone(),
+                        AnyValue::EnumOwned(
+                            v,
+                            r.as_ref().unwrap().clone(),
+                            SyncPtr::from_const(arr as *const _),
+                        ),
+                    )
+                },
+            },
+            DataType::Categorical(_, _) => {
+                let av: AnyValue = self.max_categorical().into();
+                Scalar::new(DataType::String, av.into_static())
+            },
+            _ => unreachable!(),
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_enum.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_enum.py
index 9ad384cd1bab..9bd4a49ddd1d 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_enum.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_enum.py
@@ -536,3 +536,21 @@ def test_integer_cast_to_enum_15738(dt: pl.DataType) -> None:
     assert s.to_list() == ["a", "b", "c"]
     expected_s = pl.Series(["a", "b", "c"], dtype=pl.Enum(["a", "b", "c"]))
     assert_series_equal(s, expected_s)
+
+
+def test_enum_19269() -> None:
+    en = pl.Enum(["X", "Z", "Y"])
+    df = pl.DataFrame(
+        {"test": pl.Series(["X", "Y", "Z"], dtype=en), "group": [1, 2, 2]}
+    )
+    out = (
+        df.group_by("group", maintain_order=True)
+        .agg(pl.col("test").mode())
+        .select(
+            a=pl.col("test").list.max(),
+            b=pl.col("test").list.min(),
+        )
+    )
+
+    assert out.to_dict(as_series=False) == {"a": ["X", "Y"], "b": ["X", "Z"]}
+    assert out.dtypes == [en, en]