| State |
Capital |
|---|
| Free States (Freistaaten) |
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Anhalt |
Dessau |
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Baden |
Karlsruhe |
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Bavaria (Bayern) |
Munich |
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Brunswick (Braunschweig) |
Braunschweig |
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Coburg – to Bavaria in 1920 |
Coburg |
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Hesse (Hessen) |
Darmstadt |
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Lippe |
Detmold |
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Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Schwerin |
|
Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
Neustrelitz |
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Oldenburg |
Oldenburg |
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Prussia (Preußen) |
Berlin |
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Saxony (Sachsen) |
Dresden |
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Schaumburg-Lippe |
Bückeburg |
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Thuringia (Thüringen) – from 1920 |
Weimar |
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Waldeck-Pyrmont – to Prussia
(Pyrmont joined Prussia in 1921, Waldeck followed in 1929) |
Arolsen |
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Württemberg |
Stuttgart |
| Free and Hanseatic Cities (Freie und Hansestädte) |
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Bremen |
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Hamburg |
 |
Lübeck |
| States merged to form Thuringia in 1920 |
 |
Reuss |
Gera |
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Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg) |
Altenburg |
|
Saxe-Gotha (Sachsen-Gotha) |
Gotha |
|
Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen) |
Meiningen |
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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) |
Weimar |
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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Rudolstadt |
|
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen |
Sondershausen |
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