Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe

Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe (German)
State of Germany
1918–1946
Flag of Schaumburg-Lippe
Flag
Coat of arms of Schaumburg-Lippe
Coat of arms

The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (red) within the Weimar Republic

CapitalBückeburg
Area 
• 1939
340 km2 (130 sq mi)
Population 
• 1939
53,277
Government
 • TypeRepublic
State Councillor 
• 1918 (first)
Friedrich von Feilitzsch [de]
• 1933–1945
Karl Dreier [de]a
• 1945–1946 (last)
Heinrich Drake
Reichsstatthalter 
• 1933–1945
Alfred Meyer
Historical eraInterwar · World War II
15 November 1918
• Disestablished
1 November 1946
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
Lower Saxony
Today part ofGermany
a. As State President.

The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe on 15 November 1918, following the German Revolution. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. The democratic government was suppressed during Nazi rule. At the end of the Second World War, the British military occupation government decreed on 1 November 1946 the union of Schaumburg-Lippe, Hannover, Braunschweig and Oldenburg to form the new state of Lower Saxony.

British Military Government Ordinance No. 55, merging Schaumburg-Lippe into the new state of Lower Saxony, effective 1 November 1946.
Map showing Free State of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe.