National
Member of the Federal Council
- German: Mitglied des Bundesrates
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Held automatically by another office
- Exact method
- Members of the state governments (or their appointed deputies), appointed and recalled by them (Art. 51 Basic Law). Each state casts between 3 and 6 votes by population, 69 in total; votes of a state must be cast uniformly. The Federal Council is a permanent body with no elections of its own.
- Seats
- 69
Who holds these seats now
Each seat with its own constituency.
| Seat | Held by |
|---|---|
| Baden-Württemberg (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Bavaria (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Berlin (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Brandenburg (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Bremen (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Hamburg (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Hesse (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Lower Saxony (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (delegation) | Not in our records |
| North Rhine-Westphalia (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Rhineland-Palatinate (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Saarland (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Saxony-Anhalt (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Saxony (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Schleswig-Holstein (delegation) | Not in our records |
| Thuringia (delegation) | Not in our records |
Sources
- gesetze-im-internet.de · checked Federal Ministry of Justice, Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Basic Law), current consolidated text, read 2026-10-12: structure, selection methods and competences of the federal bodies (Arts. 38-69, 50-53, 93-94); body names and websites from each body's own site. For: Member of the Federal Council, Member of the Federal Council in German
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