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History. It was formed on 6 March 1910 as a merger of Free-minded People's Party, Free-minded Union and German People's Party in order to unify various fragmented liberal groups represented in parliament. Already during the 1907 federal election, the two Free-minded parties had joined forces supporting Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, who had ...
- 20 November 1918; 104 years ago
- Otto Fischbeck (1910–1912), Otto Wiemer (1912–1918)
- 6 March 1910; 113 years ago
The party advocated liberalism, social progressivism and parliamentarism. On 6 March 1910, the party merged with the Free-minded Union and the German People's Party to form the Progressive People's Party. See also. Contributions to liberal theory; Liberal democracy; Liberalism; Liberalism in Germany; Liberalism worldwide; List of liberal parties
- 6 March 1910; 113 years ago
- Eugen Richter
- 7 May 1893; 130 years ago
- German Free-minded Party
Progressive People's Party may refer to: Progressive People's Party (Germany), in the late German Empire. Progressive People's Party (Ghana) Progressive People's Party (Liberia) Progressive People's Party (Namibia) Progressive People's Party (Molise) Vikassheel Insaan Party (India)
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Foundation
Following the end of World War I and the collapse of the German Empire, the party system in Germany remained largely in place because the groups with a common religion, social status, culture, etc. had for the most part survived. In the political center, there were strong efforts in both the Progressive People's Party (FVP) and the National Liberal Party (NLP) to overcome the historical split between "democrats" (more left-liberal, as the FVP) and "liberals" (more to the right, as the NLP) an...
Establishment and consolidation
Although the DVP initially rejected the Weimar Constitution, it participated in almost all Reich governments from 1920 to 1931. This was primarily due to Stresemann. Although he was at heart a monarchist, he recognized that a return to monarchy could only be achieved through a coup followed by civil war, a path he firmly rejected. At the party congress in Jena on 13 April 1919, he said: "We must not proceed from one bloodbath to another. ... The path to domestic peace can only be on the basis...
Downturn and end
The DVP’s more conservative members never really trusted Stresemann, especially when he became more supportive of the Republic. Even in the early 1920s there was internal opposition to Stresemann, centered especially around the industrial magnate and DVP member Hugo Stinnes. This element sought much closer cooperation with the DNVP but was initially unable to achieve it because of the close ties between the DVP and the Republic. In 1924 former Reich Minister of Economics Johann Becker, togeth...
The party was generally thought to represent the interests of German industrialists. Its platform stressed Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsidies, and hostility to socialism (Communists and Social Democrats). The liberal concept of the people which shaped political thinking i...
The members and representatives of the DVP, who were primarily committed, principled scholars and civil servants, belonged to the middle and upper classes. They represented the wealthy educated middle class which had come together in the National Liberal Party during the Empire. After 1922 there was a party-affiliated student association, the Reich...
The DVP had its voter base predominantly in large and mid-sized cities: in the 1920 Reichstag elections, for example, it won an average of 13.2% of the vote in cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, while it received only 7.2% of the vote in small communities with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants. The DVP was also a predominantly Protestant party. I...
In contrast to the German Democratic Party, which was openly sponsored by the major liberal papers in Berlin (including the Vossische Zeitung and Berliner Tageblatt), the DVP received support only from the Kölnischen Zeitung (Cologne), the Magdeburg Zeitung, the Tägliche Rundschau from Berlin, and the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung. The other majo...
Even though the DVP was considered the party of big industrial capital, it always struggled with financial problems. The DDP was able to rely primarily on Berlin and Hamburg businesses, especially in the early days of the Weimar Republic, while the DNVP was mainly supported by Rhenish-Westphalian heavy industry. Hugo Stinnes and Albert Vöglerwere t...
Wilhelm Bünger (1870–1937), Saxon Minister President and judge in the Reichstag Fire TrialPoliticians from the DVP participated in the founding of the German Party (DP), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Christian Democratic Union(CDU) after World War II.
The Christian People's Party (German: Christliche Volkspartei, CVP) was a political party in Weimar Germany. A Catholic party, it was mainly based in the Rhineland area of western Germany. History. Idea to create a nondenominational Christian party, based on the Christian trade unions, was floated in 1918.
German politicians by party. German Empire politicians. German social liberals. 20th-century German politicians. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. 20th-century German politicians subcats.
Logo of European People's Party Group from 1999 to 2015. In the 9th European Parliament, the EPP won 182 seats [37] out of a total of 751. They formed a coalition with Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe to elect Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission.
