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339. What is the title of the head of government in Brandenburg?

Official German wording

Wie nennt man den Regierungschef / die Regierungschefin in Brandenburg?

  1. Erster Minister / Erste Ministerin
  2. Premierminister / Premierministerin
  3. Bürgermeister / Bürgermeisterin
  4. Ministerpräsident / Ministerpräsidentin

Answer options

  1. First Minister (male) / First Minister (female)
  2. Prime Minister (male) / Prime Minister (female)
  3. Mayor (male) / Mayor (female)
  4. Minister-President (male) / Minister-President (female)

Correct answer

Minister-President (male) / Minister-President (female)

Explanation

As a territorial state (Flächenland), Brandenburg is headed by a Minister-President elected by the Landtag, who directs the state government. The designation is entrenched in German public law since the Weimar era and again after 1946/49; “Prime Minister” is not a term of German constitutional nomenclature. The homogeneity clause of Article 28(1) of the Basic Law ensures a fundamentally similar yet federally autonomous constitutional order, within which the executive is led by the Minister-President and is responsible to the Landtag. The city-states are the notable exceptions (Berlin: Governing Mayor; Hamburg: First Mayor; Bremen: President of the Senate).

Official sources

The German questions come from the original BAMF catalog for the Einbürgerungstest and Leben in Deutschland. Translations and explanations are study aids; verify legal details in the official sources.