| State
|
Full name
|
Capital
|
Established
|
Notes
|
| 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
|
