Free State of Lippe

Free State of Lippe
Freistaat Lippe (German)
State of Germany
1918–1947
Flag of Lippe
Flag
Coat of arms of Lippe
Coat of arms

The Free State of Lippe (red) within the Weimar Republic
CapitalDetmold
Area 
• 1939
1,215.2 km2 (469.2 sq mi)
Population 
• 1939
188,598
Government
 • TypeRepublic
Chairman 
• 1918–1920
Clemens Becker [de]
• 1920–1933
Heinrich Drake
• 1933
Ernst Krappe
State President 
• 1933–1936
Hans-Joachim Riecke
• 1936–1945
Alfred Meyer
• 1945–1947
Heinrich Drake
Historical eraInterwar period
• Established
15 November 1918
• Incorporation into North Rhine-Westphalia
21 January 1947
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Principality of Lippe
North Rhine-Westphalia

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.