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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 ( 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.
A member of the Weimar Coalition, the Centre Party was the third-largest party in the Reichstag for most of the Weimar Republic and participated in all governments until 1932. Their party newspaper was Germania .
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.
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.
Center party can be treated as one important test case of social stability in Germany during the 1920's. Apart from the relative electoral stability of the Center, and the potential it could make to the Reichsbanner, this question had some. ramifications.
