Schaumburg-Lippe was a small state in Germany, in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bückeburg.
History
With the death of Count Wilhelm in 1777 the junior Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen inherited the County thereby reuniting Schaumburg-Lippe with Lippe-Alverdissen.
Schaumburg-Lippe was a county until 1807 when it became a principality, and joined the a state of the German Empire as a state in 1871. In 1911 it was the smallest state in the German Empire.[1] It lasted until the end of the German monarchies in 1918, when it became a free state as the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Rulers of Schaumburg-Lippe
Counts of Schaumburg-Lippe (1643–1807)
Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe (1807–1918)
Heads of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe, post monarchy
Heir: Hereditary Prince Heinrich-Donatus (born 1994)
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"Schaumburg-Lippe". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Schaumburg-Lippe.
