Schaumburg-Lippe

Infobox Former Country
native_name = "Grafschaft (Fürstentum) Schaumburg-Lippe"
conventional_long_name = County (Principality) of Schaumburg-Lippe
common_name = Schaumburg-Lippe
continent = Europe
region = Central Europe
country = Germany
era = Early modern Europe
status = Vassal
empire = Holy Roman Empire
status_text = State of the Holy Roman Empire,
State of the Confederation of the Rhine,
State of the German Confederation,
State of the North German Confederation,
State of the German Empire
government_type = Principality
year_start = 1643
year_end = 1918
event_start = Partitioned from
spaces|4 Schaumburg
date_start =
1643
event1 = Inherited Lippe-Alverdissen
date_event1 = 1777
event2 = Raised to principality
date_event2 = 1807
event_end = German Revolution
date_end =
p1 = Schaumburg
image_p1 =
s1 = Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe
flag_s1 = Flagge Fürstentum Schaumburg-Lippe.svg

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image_map_caption = Schaumburg-Lippe within the German Empire
capital = Bückeburg
national_anthem = "Heil unserm Fürsten, heil"
Hail to our Prince, hail!
stat_year1 = 1905
stat_area1 = 340
stat_pop1 = 44992

Schaumburg-Lippe was a small state in Germany, in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bückeburg. With the death of Count Wilhelm in 1777 the junior Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen inherited the County thereby reuniting Schaumburg-Lippe with Lippe-Alverdissen.

Schaumburg-Lippe was a county until 1807 when it became a principality, which lasted until the end of the German monarchies in 1918, when it became a free state as the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Rulers of Schaumburg-Lippe

Counts of Schaumburg-Lippe (1643–1807)

* Philipp I (1643–81)
* Friedrich Christian (1681–1728)
* Albrecht Wolfgang (1728–48)
* Wilhelm (1748–77)
* Philipp II (1777–87)
* Georg Wilhelm (1787–1807)

Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe (1807–1918)

* Georg Wilhelm (1807–60)
* Adolf I (1860–93)
* Georg (1893–1911)
* Adolf II (1911–18)

Heads of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe, post monarchy

* Adolf II (1918–36)
* Wolrad (1936–62)
* Philipp-Ernst (1962–2003)
* Alexander (2003–"present")

Heir: Hereditary Prince Heinrich-Donatus (born 1994)