| Free State of Lippe Freistaat Lippe (German) | |||||||||
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| State of Germany | |||||||||
| 1918–1947 | |||||||||
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.svg) The Free State of Lippe (red) within the Weimar Republic | |||||||||
| Capital | Detmold | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1939 | 1,215.2 km2 (469.2 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1939 | 188,598 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Republic | ||||||||
| Chairman | |||||||||
• 1918–1920 | Clemens Becker | ||||||||
• 1920–1933 | Heinrich Drake | ||||||||
• 1933 | Ernst Krappe | ||||||||
| State President | |||||||||
• 1933–1936 | Hans-Joachim Riecke | ||||||||
• 1936–1945 | Alfred Meyer | ||||||||
• 1945–1947 | Heinrich Drake | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 15 November 1918 | ||||||||
• Incorporation into North Rhine-Westphalia | 21 January 1947 | ||||||||
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The Free State of Lippe (German: Freistaat Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Leopold IV of the Principality of Lippe on 15 November 1918, following the German Revolution. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. After the end of the Second World War, the Control Commission for Germany – British Element (CCG/BE) abolished the state of Lippe in January 1947 and incorporated it into the new German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that had been created three months earlier.