The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on the 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.
Rulers of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
Minister of State
- Friedrich Freiherr von Feilitzsch (15 November 1918-3 December 1918)
Chairman of the State Council
- Heinrich Lorenz (SPD) (4 December 1918 - 14 March 1919)
State Councillors
- Otto Bönners (14 March 1919-22 May 1922)
- Konrad Wippermann (22 May 1922-28 May 1925)
- Erich Steinbrecher (SPD) (28 May 1925-7 October 1927)
- Heinrich Lorenz (SDP) (7 October 1927-7 March 1933)
- Hans Joachim Riecke (NSDAP) (1 April 1933-23 May 1933)
State presidents
Minister
- Heinrich Hermann Drake (SPD) (1945-30 April 1946)
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