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

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

. 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 * Imperial County of Reuss or Reuß, several former states or countries in present-day Germany, and the People's State of Reuss * Principality of Reuss-Greiz and Principality of R ...

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, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...

, 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
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