Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was the successor state to the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. It was created in November 1918 after the German revolution brought about the collapse of the German Empire and the abdication of Schaumburg-Lippe's Prince Adolf II. The stable democratic government of the tiny Free State was suppressed in the early days of Nazi rule. After the Second World War, the British military occupation government included Schaumburg-Lippe in the new state of Lower Saxony, of which it is still a part today.