page_title: Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
section_title: Minister
hierarchical_section_title: Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe / Leaders / Minister
caption_attribution_description: English: Extract from Karte des Deutschen Reiches (1944) showing administrative boundaries of Land Lippe and Schaumberg-Lippe and parts of Provinz Westfalen and Hannover. GIS Data digitised from Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1:100 000. Some source KDR maps from WIG (www.mapywig.org).
context_page_description: The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, headed by a Minister President. The democratic government was suppressed during Nazi rule. At the end of World War II the British military occupation government decreed on 1 November 1946 the union of Schaumburg-Lippe, Hannover, Braunschweig, and Oldenburg to form the new state of Lower Saxony.
context_section_description: Heinrich Hermann Drake (SPD, 1945 – 30 April 1946)
caption: Map showing Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe
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