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.

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 List of states 

 Free States 
StateFull nameCapitalEstablishedNotesAnhaltFree State of AnhaltFreistaat AnhaltDessau1918Merged into Saxony-Anhalt in 1945BadenRepublic of BadenRepublik BadenKarlsruhe1918Split into Württemberg-Baden and South Baden in 1945BavariaFree State of BavariaFreistaat BayernMunich1919BrunswickFree State of BrunswickFreistaat BraunschweigBraunschweig1918Split and merged into Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in 1946CoburgFree State of CoburgFreistaat CoburgCoburg1918–20Merged into Bavaria in 1920GothaFree State of GothaFreistat GothaGotha1918–1920Merged into Thuringia in 1920HessePeople's State of HesseVolksstaat HessenDarmstadt1918Split into Greater Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate in 1945LippeFree State of LippeFreistaat LippeDetmold1918Merged into North Rhine-Westphalia in 1947Mecklenburg-SchwerinFree State of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFreistaat Mecklenburg-SchwerinSchwerin1918Merged into Mecklenburg in 1933Mecklenburg-StrelitzFree State of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFreistaat Mecklenburg-StrelitzNeustrelitz1918Merged into Mecklenburg in 1933OldenburgFree State of OldenburgFreistaat OldenburgOldenburg1918Split into Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946PrussiaFree State of PrussiaFreistaat PreußenBerlin1918Abolished in 1947SaxonyFree State of SaxonyFreistaat SachsenDresden1918ReussPeople's State of ReussVolksstaat ReußGera1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Schaumburg-LippeFree State of Schaumburg-LippeFreistaat Schaumburg-LippeBückeburg1918Merged into Lower Saxony in 1946ThuringiaFree State of ThuringiaFreistaat ThüringenErfurt1920Formed 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 ReussSaxe-AltenburgFree State of Saxe-AltenburgFreistaat Sachsen-AltenburgAltenburg1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Saxe-MeiningenFree State of Saxe-MeiningenFreistaat Sachsen-MeiningenMeiningen1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Saxe-Weimar-EisenachFree State of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachFreistaat Sachsen-Weimar-EisenachWeimar1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Schwarzburg-RudolstadtFree State of Schwarzburg-RudolstadtFreistaat Schwarzburg-RudolstadtRudolstadt1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Schwarzburg-SondershausenFree State of Schwarzburg-SondershausenFreistaat Schwarzburg-SondershausenSondershausen1918–20Merged into Thuringia in 1920Waldeck-PyrmontFree State of Waldeck-PyrmontFreistaat Waldeck-PyrmontArolsen1918–29Pyrmont merged into Prussia in 1921; Waldeck merged into Prussia in 1929WürttembergFree People's State of WürttembergFreier Volksstaat WürttembergStuttgart1918Split into Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1945

 Free and Hanseatic Cities 
StateFull nameCapitalNotesBremenFree and Hanseatic City of BremenFreie Hansestadt BremenBremenHamburgFree and Hanseatic City of HamburgFreie und Hansestadt HamburgHamburgLübeckFree and Hanseatic City of LübeckFreie und Hansestadt LübeckLübeckMerged into Prussia in 1937

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