The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (german: link=no, Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of

Schaumburg-Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe, also Lippe-Schaumburg, was created as a county in 1647, became a principality in 1807, a free state in 1918, and was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bück ...

on 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the

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, 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,

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, and

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to form the new state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

Leaders

Minister of State

* Friedrich

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

von Feilitzsch (15 November 1918 – 3 December 1918)

Chairman of the State Council

* Heinrich Lorenz (

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...

, 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 Hans-Joachim Riecke or Hans-Joachim Ernst Riecke (20 June 1899 – 11 August 1986) was a German Nazi politician and '' Gruppenführer'' in the SS. During World War II Riecke was the State Secretary (''Staatssekretär'') to Herbert Backe, the ' ...

(

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...

, 1 April – 23 May 1933)

State Presidents

Alfred Meyer Gustav Alfred Julius Meyer (5 October 1891 – 11 April 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was the ''Gauleiter'' of North Westphalia from 1931 to 1945, the ''Oberpräsident'' of the Provinc ...

(NSDAP, as ''

Reichsstatthalter The ''Reichsstatthalter'' (, ''Imperial lieutenant'') was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany. ''Statthalter des Reiches'' (1879–1918) The office of ''Statthalter des Reiches'' (otherwise known as ''Reichsstatthalte ...

''; 16 May 1933 – 4 April 1945) * Karl Dreier (NSDAP, 25 May 1933 – March 1945)

Minister

* Heinrich Hermann Drake (SPD, 1945 – 30 April 1946) KDR44 Extract Lippe and Schaumberg-Lippe

External links

Schaumburg-Lippe

1918 establishments in Germany {{Germany-hist-stub