The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (german: Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz; ) is a state-level

security agency A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a nation. They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other ...

in Germany. In seven federal states of Germany, it is a semi-independent agency called and reports to the state's interior ministry. In the nine remaining federal states, it is organized as a division within the state's interior ministry. The following states, mostly

Western German The old states of Germany (german: die alten Länder) is a jargon referring to the ten of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that were part of West Germany and that unified with the eastern German Democratic Republic' ...

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Bayerisches Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz The Bayerisches Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BayLfV, "Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution") is the domestic intelligence agency of the Free State of Bavaria. Its main function is the observation and surveillance of anti-c ...

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Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen The ( State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Saxony) is the domestic intelligence agency of the German federal state of Saxony. Its main function is the observation and surveillance of anti-constitutional activities in the German s ...

The following nine states, both in the East and West part, have a division within each state Interior Ministry handling constitutional protection:Land Brandenburg: Adresses of the State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution
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