| Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont(1918–21) Freistaat Waldeck-Pyrmont Free State of Waldeck(1921–29) Freistaat Waldeck | |||||||||||||
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| State of theWeimar Republic | |||||||||||||
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.svg) The Free State of Waldeck (red) within theWeimar Republic (after 1921) | |||||||||||||
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| Mein Waldeck | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Arolsen | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1925 | 55,750 | ||||||||||||
| • Type | Republic | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||||||
| 1921 | |||||||||||||
• Merges withPrussian province ofHesse-Nassau | 1929 | ||||||||||||
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TheFree State of Waldeck-Pyrmont (German:Freistaat Waldeck-Pyrmont), later theFree State of Waldeck (Freistaat Waldeck), was a constituent state of theWeimar Republic. It was created following theGerman Revolution which forced PrinceFriedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont along with the other German monarchs to abdicate.
On 30 November 1921, following a localplebiscite, the city and district ofPyrmont were detached and incorporated into the Prussian province ofHanover. The remainder of the State was incorporated into theFree State of Prussia on 1 May 1929, following another plebiscite, and became part of the province ofHesse-Nassau. The territory is today part of the District ofWaldeck-Frankenberg inHesse.
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