Back Estat Lliure de Lippe Catalan Svobodný stát Lippe Czech Freistaat Lippe German Estado Libre de Lippe Spanish ایالت آزاد لیپه FA État libre de Lippe French Steat Seyr Lippe GV המדינה החופשית ליפה HE Negara Bebas Lippe ID Stato libero di Lippe Italian
| Free State of Lippe Freistaat Lippe (German) | |||||||||
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| State of Germany | |||||||||
| 1918–1947 | |||||||||
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.svg) The Free State of Lippe (red) within the Weimar Republic | |||||||||
| Capital | Detmold | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1939 | 1,215.2 km2 (469.2 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1939 | 188,598 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Republic | ||||||||
| Chairman | |||||||||
• 1918–1920 | Clemens Becker | ||||||||
• 1920–1933 | Heinrich Drake | ||||||||
• 1933 | Ernst Krappe | ||||||||
| State President | |||||||||
• 1933–1936 | Hans-Joachim Riecke | ||||||||
• 1936–1945 | Alfred Meyer | ||||||||
• 1945–1947 | Heinrich Drake | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 15 November 1918 | ||||||||
• Incorporation into North Rhine-Westphalia | 21 January 1947 | ||||||||
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The Free State of Lippe (German: Freistaat Lippe) was created following the abdication of Prince Leopold IV of the Principality of Lippe on 15 November 1918, following the German Revolution. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. After the end of the Second World War, the Control Commission for Germany – British Element (CCG/BE) abolished the state of Lippe in January 1947 and incorporated it into the new German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that had been created three months earlier.