The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (german: link=no, 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
The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is ...
, 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
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
,
Braunschweig, and
Oldenburg 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 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)
External links
Schaumburg-Lippe
Schaumburg-Lippe
1918 establishments in Germany
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