Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

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native_name = "Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe"
conventional_long_name = Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
common_name = Schaumburg-Lippe
subdivision = State
nation = Germany
continent = Europe
government_type = Republic
year_start = 1918
year_end = 1946
event_start = German Revolution
date_start = 15 November
event_end =
date_end = 1 November
p1 = Schaumburg-Lippe
flag_p1 = Flagge Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe.svg
s1 = Lower Saxony
flag_s1 = Flag of Lower Saxony.svg

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image_map_caption = The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (red), within Germany|
capital = Bückeburg
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leader1 = Friedrich Freiherr von Feilitzsch
leader2 = Karl Dreier
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year_leader1 = 1918
year_leader2 = 1933-1945
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title_leader = Minister President
stat_year1 = 1939
stat_area1 = 340
stat_pop1 = 53277
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The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe ( _de. Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on the 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, headed by a Minister President. The democratic government was suppressed during Nazi rule. At the end of the second world war the British military occupation government decreed on 1 November 1946 the union of Schaumburg-Lippe, Hannover, Braunschweig, and Oldenburg to form the new state of Lower Saxony.

Rulers of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

Minister of State

*Friedrich Freiherr von Feilitzsch (15 November 1918-3 December 1918)

Chairman of the State Council

*Heinrich Lorenz (SPD) (4 December 1918 - 14 March 1919)

tate Councillors

*Otto Bönners (14 March 1919-22 May 1922)
*Konrad Wippermann (22 May 1922-28 May 1925)
*Erich Steinbrecher (SPD) (28 May 1925-7 October 1927)
*Heinrich Lorenz (SDP) (7 October 1927-7 March 1933)
*Hans Joachim Riecke (NSDAP) (1 April 1933-23 May 1933)

tate presidents

*Karl Dreier (NSDAP) (25 May 1933-March 1945)
*Alfred Meyer (Reichsstatthalter) (NSDAP) (16 May 1933-4 April 1945)

Minister

*Heinrich Hermann Drake (SPD) (1945-30 April 1946)

External links

* [http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/NSAC/SLP/index.html Schaumburg-Lippe]
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/German_States1918.htm States of Germany since 1918]