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The Centre Party ( German: Zentrum ), officially the German Centre Party (German: Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Christian democratic political party in Germany. It was most Influential in the German Empire and Weimar Republic.
26. Apr. 2024 · The Centre Party was a German political party active in the Second Reich and Weimar Republic, from the time of Otto von Bismarck in the 1870s to 1933. It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern and western Germany ...
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The Centre Party. The Centre Party ( Zentrumspartei or Zentrum) was the political voice of Germany’s Catholics. It was formed in 1870, a time when Catholics made up a little over one-third of the empire; the remainder of Germans were Lutheran or other Protestant denominations.
The Center Party. The German Center Party (the Center) was founded in 1869 to represent the political interests of the Catholic Church in Germany. It played a key role supporting stability in the Weimar Republic, as it was considered an acceptable partner for forming coalition governments - with parties ranging from the SPD all the way to the DNVP.
28. Mai 2024 · Despite its commitment to the monarchy, after World War I the party quickly accepted the Weimar Republic and became its central pillar next to the SPD. Towards the end of the Republic, under Brüning's leadership, it hoped to overcome the problems of the parliamentary democracy through cooperation with conservative elites.
Abstract. This chapter focuses on two major Weimar political parties, the anti-republican German National People’s Party (DNVP) and Catholic Centre Party, which acknowledged the Weimar Republic’s legitimacy and occupied a crucial position in every national coalition until mid-1932. Ultimately the DNVP’s support crumbled because it could ...
The Centre Party (Zentrumspartei or Zentrum) regarded itself as the political voice of the Catholic population. Under the leadership of Matthias Erzberger, the Centre professed allegiance to the republi-can constitution and worked with the SPD and DDP in the Weimar Coalition to establish parliamen-tary democracy.
