Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe
State of Germany
← 1918–1946 →
Flag Coat of arms
Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (red) within Germany during the Weimar Republic
Capital		Bückeburg
Government		Republic
Minister-President
•	1918 (first)	Friedrich von Feilitzsch
•	1933–1945	Karl Dreier^a
•	1945–1946 (last)	Heinrich Hermann Drake^b
Reichsstatthalter
•	1933–1945	Alfred Meyer
Historical era		Interwar · World War II
•	German Revolution	15 November 1918
•	Disestablished	1 November 1946
Area
•	1939	340 km^2 (131 sq mi)
Population
•	1939	53,277
	Density	156.7 /km^2  (405.8 /sq mi)
a. As State President. b. As "Minister".

The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on 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 World War II 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.

Leaders

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)

State 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 (SPD, 7 October 1927 – 7 March 1933)
• Hans-Joachim-Riecke (NSDAP, 1 April – 23 May 1933)

State Presidents

• Alfred Meyer (NSDAP, as Reichsstatthalter; 16 May 1933 – 4 April 1945)
• Karl Dreier (NSDAP, 25 May 1933 – March 1945)

Minister

• Heinrich Hermann Drake (SPD, 1945 – 30 April 1946)

Map showing Lippe and Schaumberg-Lippe

External links

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• States of Germany since 1918