FREE STATE OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE

The 'Free State of 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.

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Rulers of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

Minister of State

Chairman of the State Council

State Councillors

State presidents

Minister

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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)

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 (SDP) (7 October 1927-7 March 1933)

★ Hans Joachim Riecke (NSDAP) (1 April 1933-23 May 1933)

State 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)

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★ Schaumburg-Lippe

★ States of Germany since 1918