Member of the Bundestag

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Member of the Bundestag (German: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, MdB) is the official name given to a deputy in the Bundestag (the federal parliament of Germany). Member of Parliament refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin. In German a member is called Mitglied des Bundestages (Member of the Federal Diet) or officially Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages (Member of the German Federal Diet), abbreviated MdB and attached. Unofficially the term Abgeordneter (literally: "delegate", i.e. of a certain electorate) is also common (abbreviated Abg., never follows the name but precedes it). However, Members of the Bundestag are more commonly referred to as Bundestagsabgeordneter if the Member of the Bundestag is male or Bundestagsabgeordnete if the member is female. These terms literally translate to "deputy/delegate of the Bundestag". From 1871 to 1918, legislators were known as Member of the Reichstag and sat in the Reichstag of...

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