Member of the state parliament

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Member of the Landtag ( MdL ) is the official name for a member of the parliament of one of the territorial states of the Federal Republic of Germany or historically the German Reich (see Landtag of the Weimar Republic ). Member of the state parliament is another name. The mandate abbreviation (such as MdL ) is placed before or as a so-called name affix after the surname. The Austrian equivalent in the parliaments of the federal states is LAbg .

In the German city-states of Hamburg and Bremen , the corresponding members of the state parliament are called members of the Hamburg Citizenship ( MdHB ) and members of the Bremen Citizenship ( MdBB ). They are also referred to as members of parliament for short . In the city-state of Berlin , the designation member of the House of Representatives ( MdA ) applies accordingly .

The task of the members of the state parliament is to legislate at state level and to monitor the state government . In the city-states of Hamburg and Berlin, the state parliaments also perform local political tasks. In the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the members of the citizenship (Landtag) are usually (but not always) also members of the Bremen city citizenship and therefore also deal with municipal issues. Like members of the Bundestag, members of the state parliament enjoy parliamentary immunity and indemnity . You are therefore only subject to criminal prosecution if the respective state parliament has lifted the immunity. You may not be prosecuted in court or officially or otherwise held accountable outside of the state parliament because of a vote or statement that you have made in the state parliament, in one of its committees, in a parliamentary group or in any other way in the exercise of your mandate .

Landtag elections are direct elections , in many cases each elected Landtag member is assigned an electoral district . The remaining mandates are distributed via the state lists of the respective parties . The work of a member of the state parliament therefore takes place not only in the state parliament - in the capital of the state, but also in the local constituency. There, the member of the state parliament usually has an office that is manned from time to time and has office hours.

Double mandates are possible; this means that a member of a Landtag can also be a member of the German Bundestag . However, this is partly excluded due to the respective state constitutions (e.g. in Thuringia ).

Currently existing German states with state parliaments

German city-states

There are other names in the city-states :

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