The People's State of Reuss (german: Volksstaat Reuß) was a short-lived state in what is now

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

. The state was formed on 4 April 1919 after the reigning princes of the two

Reuss Reuss may refer to: *Reuss (surname) *Reuss (river) in Switzerland *Reuss (state) or Reuß, several former states or countries in present-day Germany, and the Republic of Reuss *Reuss Elder Line and Reuss Younger Line (House of Reuss), members incl ...

principalities abdicated and elections were held in both states. The People's State of Reuss had a non-contiguous area of 1,143 square kilometers, 211,324 inhabitants (1919) and was divided into three districts. It united with six other small states to form

, a member state of 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 al ...

, on 1 May 1920.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20080217200153/http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/reuss.htm
Principalities of Reuss-Gera and Reuss-Greiz 1778-1919 (Reuss, Germany), also with flag source
Former states and territories of Thuringia 1919 establishments in Europe 1920 disestablishments in Europe States of the Weimar Republic People's {{Germany-hist-stub