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| Free State of Brunswick Freistaat Braunschweig (German) | |||||||||||
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| State of Germany | |||||||||||
| 1918–1946 | |||||||||||
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.svg) The Free State of Brunswick within the Weimar Republic | |||||||||||
 Territory of Brunswick (shown here with the post-World War II inner German border between East and West Germany) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Brunswick (Braunschweig) | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | Republic (de facto until 1933) National Socialist one-party totalitarian dictatorship (de facto 1933-1945) | ||||||||||
| Council Chairman | |||||||||||
• 1918–1919 | Sepp Oerter | ||||||||||
• 1919–1920 | Heinrich Jasper | ||||||||||
| Minister-President | |||||||||||
• 1919–1920 (first) | Heinrich Jasper | ||||||||||
• 1946 (last) | Alfred Kubel | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Landtag | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||
• Established | 10 November 1918 | ||||||||||
• Abolition de facto | 14 October 1933 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 November 1946 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
The Free State of Brunswick (German: Freistaat Braunschweig) was a state of the German Reich in the time of the Weimar Republic. It was formed after the abolition of the Duchy of Brunswick in the course of the German revolution of 1918–1919. Its capital was Braunschweig (Brunswick). In 1933 it was de facto abolished by Nazi Germany. The free state was disestablished after the Second World War in November 1946.