States of the Weimar Republic

The **States of the Weimar Republic** were the first-level administrative divisions and constituent states of the German Reich during the Weimar Republic era.

### Free States

|scope="col" width="120"|State|scope="col" width="200"|Full name|scope="col" width="120"|Capital|scope="col" width="120"|Established|Notes|
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|**Anhalt**|Free State of Anhalt _Freistaat Anhalt_|Dessau|1918|Merged into Saxony-Anhalt in 1945|||||
|**Baden**|Republic of Baden _Republik Baden_|Karlsruhe|1918|Split into Württemberg-Baden and South Baden in 1945|||||
|**Bavaria**|Free State of Bavaria _Freistaat Bayern_|Munich|1919||||||
|**Brunswick**|Free State of Brunswick _Freistaat Braunschweig_|Braunschweig|1918|Split and merged into Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in 1946|||||
|**Coburg**|Free State of Coburg _Freistaat Coburg_|Coburg|1918–20|Merged into Bavaria in 1920|||||
|**Gotha**|Free State of Gotha _Freistat Gotha_|Gotha|1918–1920|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Hesse**|People's State of Hesse _Volksstaat Hessen_|Darmstadt|1918|Split into Greater Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate in 1945|||||
|**Lippe**|Free State of Lippe _Freistaat Lippe_|Detmold|1918|Merged into North Rhine-Westphalia in 1947|||||
|**Mecklenburg-Schwerin**|Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin _Freistaat Mecklenburg-Schwerin_|Schwerin|1918|Merged into Mecklenburg in 1933|||||
|**Mecklenburg-Strelitz**|Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz _Freistaat Mecklenburg-Strelitz_|Neustrelitz|1918|Merged into Mecklenburg in 1933|||||
|**Oldenburg**|Free State of Oldenburg _Freistaat Oldenburg_|Oldenburg|1918|Split into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946|||||
|**Prussia**|Free State of Prussia _Freistaat Preußen_|Berlin|1918|Abolished in 1947|||||
|**Saxony**|Free State of Saxony _Freistaat Sachsen_|Dresden|1918||||||
|**Reuss**|People's State of Reuss _Volksstaat Reuß_|Gera|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Schaumburg-Lippe**|Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe _Freistaat Schaumburg-Lippe_|Bückeburg|1918|Merged into Lower Saxony in 1946|||||
|**Thuringia**|Free State of Thuringia _Freistaat Thüringen_|Erfurt|1920|Formed from the merger of the Free States of Gotha, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the People's State of Reuss|||||
|**Saxe-Altenburg**|Free State of Saxe-Altenburg _Freistaat Sachsen-Altenburg_|Altenburg|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Saxe-Meiningen**|Free State of Saxe-Meiningen _Freistaat Sachsen-Meiningen_|Meiningen|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach**|Free State of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach _Freistaat Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach_|Weimar|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt**|Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt _Freistaat Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt_|Rudolstadt|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Schwarzburg-Sondershausen**|Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen _Freistaat Schwarzburg-Sondershausen_|Sondershausen|1918–20|Merged into Thuringia in 1920|||||
|**Waldeck-Pyrmont**|Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont _Freistaat Waldeck-Pyrmont_|Arolsen|1918–29|Pyrmont merged into Prussia in 1921; Waldeck merged into Prussia in 1929|||||
|**Württemberg**|Free People's State of Württemberg _Freier Volksstaat Württemberg_|Stuttgart|1918|Split into Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1945|||||

### Free and Hanseatic Cities

|scope="col" width="120"|State|scope="col" width="200"|Full name|scope="col" width="120"|Capital|Notes|
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|**Bremen**|Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen _Freie Hansestadt Bremen_|Bremen|||||
|**Hamburg**|Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg _Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg_|Hamburg|||||
|**Lübeck**|Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck _Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck_|Lübeck|Merged into Prussia in 1937||||