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