Free State of Lippe



















































































Free State of Lippe
Freistaat Lippe
State of Germany









1918–1947















Flag

Coat of arms
Flag
Coat of arms


Location of Lippe
Lippe within Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic.

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 North Rhine-Westphalia
21 January 1947

Area
 •  1939
1,215.2 km2(469 sq mi)

Population
 •  1939
188,598 

Density
155.2 /km2  (402 /sq mi)

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 after the end of Nazi rule. This autonomy ended in January 1947, when the Control Commission for Germany - British Element (CCG/BE) incorporated Lippe into the new German state of North Rhine-Westphalia created three months earlier. The British established a number of military bases in North Rhine-Westphalia, of which Detmold (HQ and units of 20th Armoured Brigade) and Lemgo (infantry battalion barracks) were located within the former boundaries of the Free State of Lippe.




Map showing Free State of Lippe in 1923–1946.




Map showing Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe.



Coordinates: 51°56′10″N 8°52′41″E / 51.936182°N 8.877962°E / 51.936182; 8.877962














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