State Office for the Protection of the Constitution

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The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz; LfV) is a state-level security agency in Germany.

In seven federal states of Germany, it is a semi-independent agency called Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz and 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 Western German, have a detached Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz:

• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Baden-Württemberg
• Bayerisches Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz
• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Bremen
• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Hessen
• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Saarland
• Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen

The following nine states, both in the East and West part, have a division within each state Interior Ministry handling 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

• List of intelligence agencies of Germany