The Sächsische Staatskanzlei (Saxon State Chancellery or Saxon State Chamber) is the office of the Minister-President of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

. It is in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

on the northern

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banks and was established in 1995. The Staatskanzlei is managed by the ''State Minister and Head of the Staatskanzlei''. The Free State of Saxony also established a Staatskanzlei between 1918 and 1945. The building was used by the ''Rat des Bezirkes'' (Board of the

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) of the Bezirk Dresden after the

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had established the Bezirk subdivisions in 1952.

Building

The building of the Staatskanzlei is the ''Gemeinsames Ministerialgebäude'' or ''Gesamtministerium'' (''Joint Ministry Building). It was built between 1900 and 1904 in Historicistic style. The golden crown on the roof was a visible symbol of authority in the Kingdom of Saxony during the last years of the

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. The building is still lettered as ''Königliches Ministerium des Inneren'' (''Royal Ministry of the Interior'') today.

Tasks

* Supporting the Minister-President in politics * Evaluation of passed laws concerning their constitutionality * Questions of state area and state structuring * Correspondence to the

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* Correspondence to the

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and the other 15 German states * Coordination of the government's external affairs (involving Federal Republic, European Union and other states) * Representation of Saxony with offices in

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and

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* Coordination of the international relationships especially cross-border affairs with the proximate

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and

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* Petition for mercy (which address the Minister-President) * Media politics

External links

Page of the Saxon government
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sachsische Staatskanzlei Buildings and structures in Dresden Government of Saxony