The state parliament consisted of a landtag of 35 members, elected for a term of four years by universal suffrage.

[1] For most of the Weimar period, the governments were headed by either a Social Democrat or a Nationalist.

However, following the Nazi seizure of power at the national level, they enacted the "Second Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich" which established more direct control over the states by means of the new powerful position of Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor).

[2] He immediately moved to take full control of the state apparatus by the appointment of a fellow-Nazi, Fritz Stichtenoth, as Minister of State on 29 May 1933.

[2] And with that, the brief fifteen-year existence of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz passed into history.