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Alternative Republic of Weimar

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Alternate history:

Weimar National Assembly is very divided in 1919. However, they took these alternative Solomon-like decisions:
  • The new official name will be Föderation der Deutschen Freistaaten (Federation of German Free States).
  • Prussia will be split up into several states because it's too large.
  • All city-states, microstates, enclaves and exclaves will be removed.
  • The capital city of the federation will be Weimar, a city in central area, like Madrid in Spain, and a federal district (Busdesdistrikt) will be created.
So, here you have the state flags and the map including all capital cities. I write some explanations about which territories are included in each state (referring states and provinces from OTL initial Republic of Weimar):
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg (that becomes its capital city), Lübeck and neighbouring exclave that was part of Oldenburg.
  • Oldenburg: Oldenburg without exclaves.
  • Hanover (Hannover): Prussian province of Hanover, Bremen, part of Braunschweig, part of Anhalt and exclave of Pyrmont (that was part of Waldeck-Pyrmont).
  • Westphalia (Westfalen): Prussian province of Westphalia, Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe.
  • Rhineland (Rheinland): Prussian Rhine province (Rheinprovinz) [without exclave of Wetzlar] and exclave of Birkenfeld (that was part of Oldenburg).
  • Hesse-Nassau (Hessen-Nassau): Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, exclave of Wetzlar (that was part of Prussian Rhine province), Waldeck (Waldeck-Pyrmont without Pyrmont) and exclave of Upper Hesse (Oberhessen) [that was part of Free State of Hesse].
  • Starkenburg-Palatinate (Starkenburg-Pflaz): Free State of Hesse (without exclave of Upper Hesse) and exclave of Palatinate (that was part of Bavaria).
  • Baden: Baden from OTL.
  • Württemberg: Württemberg and Prussian province of Hohenzollern.
  • Mecklenburg: Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  • Pomerania (Pommern): Prussian province of Pomerania.
  • East Prussia (Ostpreußen): Prussian province of East Prussia.
  • Central Saxony (Mittelsachsen): Prussian province of Saxony (Sachsen), part of Braunschweig, part of Anhalt and part of Ernestine duchies.
  • West Prussia (Westpreußen): Prussian provinces of Berlin, Brandenburg and Posen-West Prussia (except Fraustadt area).
  • Thuringia (Thüringen): Part of Ernestine duchies that formed Thuringia in OTL.
  • Upper Saxony (Obersachsen): Free State of Saxony from OTL.
  • Silesia (Schlesien): Prussian province of Lower Silesia (Niederschlesien), Prussian province of Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) and Fraustadt area that was part of Prussian province of Posen-West Prussia.
  • Bavaria (Bayern): Bavaria and some exclaves of Ernestine duchies.
In addition, the federal district of Weimar would be established. It would be a large area, the District Weimar (Weimarer Kreis) without exclaves from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. It would adopt its flag too. All other flags are taken from OTL, except flags of Starkenburg-Palatinate and Thuringia, created by me.

Map is quite similar to current OTL Germany's map but not identical.

All texts in German.
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West Prussia isn't even in West Prussia