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

Minister-President

A minister-president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers...

 of Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

. It is located in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 on the northern Elbe river

Elbe

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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 Bezirk

Bezirk

Bezirk means "district" in German and can refer to:* The primary Subdivisions of East Germany from 1952* The districts of Austria* Some of the Districts of Switzerland...

) of the Bezirk Dresden after the German Democratic Republic

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

 had established the Bezirk subdivisions

Administrative division of the German Democratic Republic

The Administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic were constituted in two different forms during the country's 41-year-long history. The Republic first retained the traditional German division into federated states called Länder, but in 1952 replaced them with arbitrarily-drawn...

 in 1952.

Building

Building of the Staatskanzlei is the Gemeinsames Ministerialgebäude or Gesamtministerium (Joint Ministry Building). It was built between 1900 and 1904 in Historicistic

Historicism (art)

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 style. The golden crown at the roof is a farly visible symbol of authority in the Kingdom of Saxony during the last years of the German Empire

German Empire

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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 Landtag of Saxony
  Landtag of Saxony
  The Landtag of Saxony, also referred to as the Parliament of Saxony or the Saxon Parliament, is the German state of Saxony's legislature...
  
  
• Correspondence to the Federal Republic
  Germany
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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 Berlin
  Berlin
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   and Brussels
  Brussels
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• Coordination of the international relationships especially cross-border affairs with the proximate Poland
  Poland
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   and Czech Republic
  Czech Republic
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• Petition for mercy (which address the Minister-President)
• Media politics

External links

• Page of the Saxon government