State Office for the Protection of the Constitution
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz; LfV) is a state-level security agency in Germany. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is supervising these agencies.[citation needed]
In seven federal states of Germany it is a semi-independent agency called Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz which 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 West German, have separate "Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz":
In the following nine states, a division of the state Interior Ministry handles constitutional protection:[1]
- Verfassungsschutz Berlin
- Verfassungsschutz Brandenburg
- Verfassungsschutz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Verfassungsschutz Niedersachsen
- Verfassungsschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Verfassungsschutz Rheinland-Pfalz
- Verfassungsschutz Sachsen-Anhalt
- Verfassungsschutz Schleswig-Holstein
- Amt für Verfassungsschutz Thüringen