Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The state parliament consisted of a landtag of 35 members, elected for a term of four years by universal suffrage. The state administration, headed by a Minister of State was responsible to the landtag and could be removed by a vote of no confidence.{{cite web |title=Der Freistaat Mecklenburg-Strelitz Überblick |url=http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Me-Strelitz/index.htm |access-date=2 March 2023}} For most of the Weimar period, the governments were headed by either a Social Democrat or a Nationalist.

However, following the Nazi seizure of power at the national level, they enacted the "Second Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich" which established more direct control over the states by means of the new powerful position of Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor). Friedrich Hildebrandt was installed in this post on 26 May 1933.{{cite book |last1= Miller |first1= Michael D. |last2= Schulz |first2= Andreas |title= Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925–1945 |volume= 1 (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hüttmann) |publisher= R. James Bender Publishing |year= 2012 |pages=485–486 |isbn= 978-1-932-97021-0}} He immediately moved to take full control of the state apparatus by the appointment of a fellow-Nazi, Fritz Stichtenoth, as Minister of State on 29 May 1933.{{cite web |title=Der Freistaat Mecklenburg-Strelitz Die Staatsministerien 1918–1933 |url=http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Me-Strelitz/Ueberblick_Reg.html |access-date=2 March 2023}}

By the end of the year, Hildebrandt, who was also Reichsstatthalter of the larger neighboring Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, moved to consolidate his domains and merged the two states into a new united state of Mecklenburg, effective 1 January 1934. And with that, the brief fifteen-year existence of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz passed into history.

• Peter Franz Stubmann (DDP) 1918–1919
• Hans Krüger (SPD) 1919

• Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (SPD) 1919–1923
• Karl Schwabe (DNVP) 1923–1928
• Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz (SPD) 1928–1931
• Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Michael (DNVP) 1931–1933
• Fritz Stichtenoth (NSDAP) 1933

• Friedrich Hildebrandt 1933

• Mecklenburg-Strelitz Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic

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• [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/German_States1918.htm#Mecklenburg-Strelitz States of Germany since 1918]
• [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Deutsches_Reichsgesetzblatt_33T1_142_1065.jpg Promulgation of the union of Mecklenburg-Strelitz with Mecklenburg-Schwerin, effective 1 January 1934]

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Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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