The State Chancellery is the "Ministry" of the Prime Minister of Niedersachsen. Here, the objectives of the Land government are implemented in terms of concrete plans and delegated to the various different departments. Staff divisions monitor progress and supply the Prime Minister with important decision-making aids after observing and analyzing overall economic and political development.

The Prime Minister’s staff coordinate structural policies with the neighbouring Länder. In addition, the State Chancellery is also directly responsible for the Staatsarchive (state archives) and dictates the federal and media policies of the Land.

The constitution also grants the Prime Minister the right to pardon criminals, and such decisions are also prepared in the State Chancellery.

It is the department for conferring orders (Ordensreferat) which is engaged in the particularly "honourable" tasks of the State Chancellery: here, proposals for awards, honours and orders are processed. This is, incidentally, one of the organs of the Land which has never received a complaint in connection with one of its letters.

Here you can learn more about the State Chancellery, its members of staff and the work which they perform...