Talk:Districts of Germany
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I've moved this here from List of German districts after realising it's no longer a list, but only links to the two sublists. Those sublists would be too long to go on one page. There are however lots of links from other pages to List of German districts so I am leaving that page as a redirect. Hope that is OK. Saintswithin 11:03, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] District Parliament // Kreistag and District administration // Landrat
According to the article text: "The district parliament, the Kreistag, is a representative organ of the district and is responsible for local self-administration. It has only executive, but no legislative powers." [emphasis added] and "The district administration is chaired by an officer known as Landrat or Landrätin." It would seem to me that the latter is actually the executive, while the parliament (as deliberative assemblies tend to be) is the legislative. Is this a typographical error (Kreistag actually is legislative) or am I just mistaken and the Germans do things a little differently? Thnx hellenica 14:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- No, you are right. The "Kreistag" (the parliament (-tag) of the Land(kreis)) is the legislative, whereas the administration and the executive is with the Landrat/Landrätin. -- till we ☼☽ | Talk 18:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] country vs district
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:German-speaking_Wikipedians'_notice_board#County_vs._district trying to reach a broad consensus as to use the term county (as used by the German foreign ministry) or the term district as currently used in a lot of articles of the German area term Landkreis. Agathoclea 11:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
