Sachsischer Landtag

What Sachsischer Landtag does

The Sächsischer Landtag (Saxon State Parliament) is the directly elected legislature of the Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen) in Germany, re-established in 1990 following German reunification. Headquartered at Bernhard-von-Lindenau-Platz 1 in Dresden, the parliament comprises elected representatives from six parliamentary groups (CDU, SPD, BSW, AfD, BÜNDNISGRÜNE, Die Linke) and currently operates in its 8th legislative period under minority government conditions. It serves the residents and citizens of Saxony through lawmaking, government oversight, budget approval, and citizen participation mechanisms including petitions, public hearings, and the Volksgesetzgebung (popular legislative initiative) process.

The institution operates a comprehensive digital parliament services platform anchored by the EDAS (Elektronischer Datenaustausch und Archivierungs-System) parliamentary documents portal, live streaming and on-demand video of plenary sessions via YouTube, and an online petition submission and tracking system. Supporting offerings include the Landtagskurier parliamentary journal, virtual building tours, an interactive knowledge rally (Wissensrallye), and digital guided tours. Subordinate institutions under the parliament include the Sächsische Landesbeauftragte zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (LASD) and the Sächsischer Integrationsbeauftragter, both operating as institutional units on separate subdomains. Public communications are distributed via the official website, X (@sax_lt), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Technical integrations are limited to standard web infrastructure: e-tracker for anonymized analytics, Google Fonts for typography, and social sharing widgets — no developer-facing APIs or AI/ML products are publicly documented.

The Sächsischer Landtag is not a commercial entity and has no revenue model in the traditional sense. It is funded through the state budget of Saxony, and all parliamentary services (sessions, petitions, educational materials) are provided free of charge to citizens. The primary "customer segment" is the entire citizenry of Saxony, with vertical segmentation by geography. Pricing is not disclosed and is not applicable; some publications such as the Landtagskurier may carry nominal costs for print orders. The institution is governed under the Saxon Constitution and holds a constitutional monopoly on state-level legislation within Saxony.

Name

Sachsischer Landtag

Legal name

Sächsischer Landtag (Freistaat Sachsen)

Website

https://landtag.sachsen.de

Company type

Public

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Sächsischer Landtag is the state parliament of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It drafts and passes state laws, oversees the state government, and represents Saxony's citizens through elected members, digital participation tools, and public communication channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

State Legislature

NAICS

Legislative Bodies (92112), Legislative Bodies (921120)

akta.pro primary industry

State Legislature/Regional Assembly Administration (BPAIABAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Property & Asset Management (Federal Buildings, Fleet, Land) (BPAIAAAJ)

Keywords

• State legislature services
• Parliamentary documentation
• Citizen petition portal
• Government oversight
• Democratic participation

Headquarters

HQ city

Dresden

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Sächsischer Landtag is the state parliament of the Free State of Saxony, responsible for passing state laws, overseeing the state government, approving the state budget, and representing Saxon citizens. It operates digital participation services including the EDAS parliamentary documents system, online petition portal, live-streamed plenary sessions, and publishes the Landtagskurier parliamentary journal. It also oversees subordinate commissioner offices (LASD for SED dictatorship reappraisal and Integration Commissioner) and event series such as Forum Mitteleuropa.

Product overview

The Sächsischer Landtag operates a comprehensive digital parliament services platform consisting of core information and participation systems. The main offerings include the EDAS parliamentary documents system for accessing bills and protocols, video streaming for plenary sessions and explanatory content, and an online petition system for citizen participation. Supporting services include the Landtagskurier parliamentary journal, virtual tours, interactive knowledge rallies, and the Forum Mitteleuropa event series. Subordinate institutions include the LASD (State Commissioner for SED Dictatorship Reappraisal) and the Integration Commissioner. The platform also incorporates third-party services for web analytics (e-tracker), typography (Google Fonts), and social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Forum Mitteleuropa: Event series hosted by the Sächsischer Landtag to strengthen Central European connections and honor the civic achievements of Central European civil society
• LASD - Sächsische Landesbeauftragte zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur

Products and services

• EDAS - Parlamentsdokumente Electronic parliamentary documents system providing public access to bills, resolutions, protocols, and other official documents of the Saxon State Parliament. It serves citizens, journalists, researchers, and legal professionals seeking authoritative parliamentary records.
• Plenarvideos / Liveübertragung

Quantifiable outcome

• Multiple laws passed per legislative period including infrastructure, police law, and education legislation
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Union der Opferverbände Kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft (UOKG)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 June 2026The UOKG exhibition 'Mauern. Gitter. Stacheldraht' was hosted in the Bürgerfoyer of the Sächsischer Landtag, focusing on political persecution in the Soviet occupation zone and DDR from 1945 to 1990.
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen DresdenminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 June 2026Joint storytelling café event held at the Japanisches Palais on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall anniversary, featuring witness accounts.
• Filminitiative DresdenminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 October 2025Cooperation for the film series 'Verbotene Filme - Vergessene Träume' showing banned DEFA films at Clubkino Lingnerschloss.
• Bundesarchiv/Stasi-Unterlagen-ArchivcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation for citizen counseling sessions where applications for file access can be submitted in cooperation with the Stasi Records Agency.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hessischer Landtag: Hesse's state parliament performs the same constitutional lawmaking, budget approval, and government oversight role for a German federal state, with broadly similar plenary and committee structures.
• Landtag Brandenburg: Brandenburg's state parliament is a particularly relevant regional peer — a neighboring eastern German state with shared post-reunification institutional history and overlapping political dynamics involving AfD, BSW, and established parties.
• Landtag von Baden-Württemberg: Baden-Württemberg's state parliament performs identical lawmaking, government oversight, and citizen-representation functions for another German federal state, operating comparable plenary, committee, and petition systems.
• Niedersächsischer Landtag: Lower Saxony's state legislature fulfills the same state-level legislative mandate, providing a directly comparable peer on citizen petitions, plenary streaming, and parliamentary documentation systems.
• Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen: North Rhine-Westphalia's state parliament shares the same constitutional function and is explicitly engaged in experience exchange with the Sächsischer Landtag (President André Kuper visited June 25–26, 2026), making it a directly comparable peer on legislative operations and digital citizen services.
• Bayerischer Landtag: The Bavarian State Parliament is Germany's largest state legislature and operates with an identical constitutional mandate to legislate, oversee the executive, and represent citizens at the Länder level — making it the closest structural peer to the Sächsischer Landtag.
• Thüringer Landtag: Thuringia's state legislature shares the same eastern German post-1990 institutional context and currently operates under similar minority-government conditions, making it a structurally and politically analogous peer.
• Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin: Berlin's state legislature carries out the same Länder-level legislative mandate and serves as a direct peer on parliamentary digital services, citizen participation platforms, and committee oversight.

Broad incumbents

• Bundesrat: Germany's federal council represents the 16 Länder governments at the federal level and is the constitutional counterpart to state parliaments, making it a thematically related institutional peer though structurally distinct.
• Deutscher Bundestag: Germany's federal parliament operates at a higher jurisdictional level but provides overlapping legislative capabilities and digital citizen services (e.g., Bundestag petitions system, plenary broadcasts), serving as a broader incumbent reference point.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sax_lt
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/S%C3%A4chsischerLandtag01/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/groups/138462576176574
• Instagraminstagram.com/sachsen_landtag

Compliance3 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

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