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In the fourteen years the Weimar Republic was in existence, some forty parties were represented in the Reichstag.This fragmentation of political power was in part due to the use of a peculiar proportional representation electoral system that encouraged regional or small special interest parties [1] and in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period.
The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. [20] [21] Before the rise of the Nazi Party, it was the major nationalist party in Weimar Germany.
Led by Franz Seldte and with ties at the leadership level to the Reichswehr, it was opposed to the Weimar Republic and politically close to the German National People's Party (DNVP) and other conservative groups. In 1931 it formed part of the Harzburg Front, an anti-democratic political alliance that included the Nazi Party. In 1934 it was ...
The Conservative Revolution is encompassed in a larger and older counter-movement to the French Revolution of 1789, influenced by the anti-modernity and anti-rationalism of early 19th-century romanticism, in the context of a German, especially Prussian, "tradition of militaristic, authoritarian nationalism which rejected liberalism, socialism ...
Anti-German Scandinavism surged in Denmark in the 1930s and 1940s in response to the pan-Germanic ambitions of Nazi Germany. [ 26 ] Administrative division of Nazi Germany, following the annexing of Austria, Sudetenland and others to form the Greater German Reich as of 1944 Map showing Nazi German plans, given to Sudeten Germans during the ...
Centre Party supporters before the 1930 federal election Heinrich Brüning, chancellor from 1930 to 1932. The Centre Party (Zentrum) was a social and political force in mainly-Protestant Germany, helping to frame the Weimar Constitution and participating in several Weimar Republic coalition governments. [46]
Centre Party; Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) Family Party of Germany; The Republicans (REP) Values Union (WU) We Citizens (WB) Defunct. Bavarian People's Party (BVP) 1918-1933; Conservative Party 1848-1867; Free Conservative Party (FKP) 1866-1918; German Conservative Party (DkP) 1876-1918; German Freedom Party 2010-2016; German National ...
The German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei, DVP) was a conservative-liberal political party during the Weimar Republic that was the successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire. Along with the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933.