German Political Structure at Unification
Kingdoms (Königreiche)
- Bavaria
- Prussia
- Saxony
- Wurttemberg
Grand Duchies (Grossherzogtümer) Baden
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Oldenburg
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Duchies (Herzogtümer)
- Anhalt
- Brunswick
- Saxe-Altenburg
- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- Saxe-Meiningen
- Principalities (Fürstentümer)
- Lippe
- Reuss-Gera or Reuss Younger Line
- Reuss-Greiz or Reuss Elder Line
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Waldeck-Pyrmont
Free Cities (Freie Hansestädte)
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Lübeck
Germany Currently Has 16 States
- Bavaria
- Baden-Württemberg
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Lower-Saxony
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Saarland
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia
