Free State of Lippe
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| Capital | Detmold | ||||
| Government | Republic | ||||
| Chairman | |||||
| - 1918-1920 | Clemens Becker | ||||
| - 1920-1933 | Heinrich Drake | ||||
| - 1933 | Ernst Krappe | ||||
| Minister-President | |||||
| - 1933-1936 | Hans Joachim Riecke | ||||
| - 1936-1945 | Alfred Meyer | ||||
| - 1945-1947 | Heinrich Drake | ||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||
| - Established | 9 November, 1918 | ||||
| - Incorporation into NRW | 21 January, 1947 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - 1939 | 1,215.2 km2 469 sq mi |
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| Population | |||||
| - 1939 est. | 188,598 | ||||
| Density | 155.2 /km² 402 /sq mi |
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The Free State of Lippe (German: Freistaat Lippe) was a German state formed after the Principality of Lippe was abolished following the German Revolution of 1918.
After the end of World War II, Lippe was restored from Nazi rule. But its independence was short-lived, with the occupying British forces incorporating Lippe into the new German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in January 1947 (NRW being established some 3 months previously).
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States: Anhalt | Baden | Bavaria | Brunswick | Hesse | Lippe | Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Oldenburg | Prussia | Saxony | Schaumburg-Lippe | Thuringia | Waldeck | Württemberg |
City-states: Bremen | Hamburg | Lübeck
Until 1920: Saxe-Altenburg | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Saxe-Meiningen | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Reuss | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
