Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
| Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe |
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| State of Germany | ||||||
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 during the Weimar Republic |
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| Capital | Bückeburg | |||||
| Government | Republic | |||||
| Minister-President | ||||||
| • | 1918 (first) | Friedrich von Feilitzsch | ||||
| • | 1933–1945 | Karl Dreiera | ||||
| • | 1945–1946 (last) | Heinrich Hermann Drakeb | ||||
| Reichsstatthalter | ||||||
| • | 1933–1945 | Alfred Meyer | ||||
| Historical era | Interwar · World War II | |||||
| • | German Revolution | 15 November 1918 | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 1 November 1946 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| • | 1939 | 340 km2(131 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1939 | 53,277 | ||||
| Density | 156.7 /km2 (405.8 /sq mi) | |||||
| a. As State President. b. As "Minister". |
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The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, headed by a Minister President. The democratic government was suppressed during Nazi rule. At the end of World War II 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.
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