List of constitutions in Germany

This is a list of the constitutions in Germany with constitutions or constitutional documents in Germany or the German states . Legal documents with direct effect on constitutional life are also included.

Napoleonic period

Rhine Confederation Act , July 12, 1806
Organization of the City of Frankfurt am Main, October 10, 1806
- Highest organizational patent of the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , August 16, 1810
Constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia , December 7, 1807
Constitution of Bavaria , May 1, 1808
Constitution Reuss older line , March 15, 1809
Constitution of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , September 20, 1809
Constitution Anhalt-Köthen , December 28, 1810
Imperial decree concerning the organization of the Council of State and the College (Grand Duchy of Berg), March 15, 1812
Nassau Constitution of 1814 , September 2, 1814

German Confederation, 1815–1848

German Federal Act , June 8, 1815
Constitution Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , January 8, 1816
Constitution Schaumburg-Lippe , January 16, 1816
Waldeck Constitution , April 19, 1816
Constitution of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, May 5, 1816
- Revised Constitution, October 15, 1850
Constitutional Amendment Act (Free City of Frankfurt), October 18, 1816
Constitution of Saxony-Hildburghausen , March 19, 1818
Constitutional charter for the Kingdom of Bavaria , May 26, 1818
Constitutional charter for the Grand Duchy of Baden , August 22, 1818
Liechtenstein Constitution , November 9, 1818
Constitutional document for the Kingdom of Württemberg , September 25, 1819
Constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover , December 7, 1819
Constitution of the Duchy of Brunswick , April 25, 1820
Constitutional charter for the Grand Duchy of Hesse , December 17, 1820
Vienna Final Act , June 8, 1820
Constitution of Saxony-Coburg , August 8, 1821
Constitution of Saxony-Meiningen , September 14, 1824
- Constitution for Saxony-Meiningen-Hildburghausen , 23 August 1829
Constitutional charter for the Electorate of Hesse , January 5, 1831
Constitutional charter for the Kingdom of Saxony , September 4, 1831
State constitution for the Kingdom of Hanover , September 29, 1833
- State constitutional law for the Kingdom of Hanover, August 6, 1840

German Confederation and German Empire, 1848–1851

Pillersdorf Constitution (Austria), April 25, 1848
Reich law on the introduction of a provisional central authority for Germany , June 28, 1848
Law on the basic rights of the German people
Imperial constitution for the Austrian Empire , March 4, 1849
Constitution of the German Empire (Frankfurt Constitution), March 28, 1849
State constitution for the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont , May 23, 1849
Constitution of the German Empire ( Erfurt Union Constitution ), May 28, 1849
- Additional act to the Erfurt Union Constitution, February 26, 1850
Constitutional charter for the Prussian state , December 5, 1849
Constitutional charter for the Prussian state, January 31, 1850
Constitution of Hessen-Homburg , January 3, 1850

German Confederation, 1851–1866

Constitutional charter for the Electorate of Hesse, April 13, 1852
Constitutional charter for the Electorate of Hesse, May 30, 1860

North German Confederation and German Empire, 1866–1918

Constitution of the North German Confederation , April 16, 1867; see November contracts :
- Protocol concerning the agreement between the North German Confederation, Baden and Hesse on the establishment of the German Confederation and the adoption of the Federal Constitution , November 15, 1870
- Treaty concerning Bavaria's accession to the Constitution of the German Confederation, with final protocol , November 23, 1870
- Treaty regarding the accession of Württemberg to the constitution of the German Confederation, together with the associated protocol , 25 November 1870
Constitution of the German Confederation , January 1, 1871
Constitution of the German Empire , April 16, 1871
- October reforms , October 28, 1918

November Revolution and Weimar Republic, 1918–1933

Law on Provisional Reich Power , February 9, 1919
Constitution of the German Empire (Weimar Constitution), August 11, 1919
Constitutional charter of the Free State of Bavaria , August 14, 1919
Constitution of the People's State of Hesse , December 12, 1919
Constitution of the Free State of Prussia , November 30, 1920
Constitution of the State of Thuringia , March 11, 1921
Constitution of the Free City of Danzig , May 13, 1922

Nazi period, 1933–1945

Ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State ( Reichstag Fire Ordinance ), February 28, 1933

Law to Eliminate the Need of the People and the Reich ( Enabling Act ), March 24, 1933

Law on the reconstruction of the Reich (Gleichschaltungsgesetz), January 30, 1934

Since 1945

Constitution of Württemberg-Baden , November 28, 1946
Constitution of the State of Hesse , December 1, 1946
Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria , December 8, 1946
Constitution for Rhineland-Palatinate , May 18, 1947
Constitution of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , May 18, 1947
Constitution of Baden , May 18, 1947
State constitution of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , October 21, 1947
Constitution of the Saarland , December 15, 1947
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , May 23, 1949
Constitution of Schleswig-Holstein , December 13, 1949
Constitution of the German Democratic Republic , October 7, 1949
Constitution for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , June 18, 1950
Constitution of Berlin , September 1, 1950
Preliminary Lower Saxony Constitution , April 13, 1951
Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , June 6, 1952
Constitution of the State of Baden-Württemberg , November 11, 1953
Constitution of the German Democratic Republic, April 9, 1968
- Addition and amendment, October 7, 1974
Constitution of Berlin (East) , July 25, 1990
Constitution of the Free State of Saxony , May 27, 1992
Constitution of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , July 16, 1992
Constitution of the State of Brandenburg , August 21, 1992
Lower Saxony Constitution , June 1, 1993
Constitution of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , May 23, 1993
Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia , October 25, 1993
Constitution of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , November 15, 1994
Constitution of Berlin , October 22, 1995