The German Party (Deutsche Partei) is a name used by a number of German political parties in the country's history. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The current incarnation is represented only at the local level in Germany. However, from 1949 to 1961, a German Party was part of the ruling coalition in the Bundestag (federal parliament). Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Bundestag ("Federal Diet " or "Lower House of German Parliament" is the Parliament of Germany. This right wing party was known for its strong stance against communism and socialism and drew much of its ideology from Christianity. In Politics, right-wing, the political right, and the Right are positions that uphold traditional values and/or authorities Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings
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Historical German Parties
1866-1948
The German Party originated in the German-Hanoverian Party (Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei) which was formed in 1866 after the annexation of Hanover by Prussia to agitate against the annexation. The German-Hanoverian Party (Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei was a conservative, Federalist Political party in Germany. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Kingdom of Hanover (Königreich Hannover was established in October of 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state Since it supported the reinstatement of the Welf kings of Hanover, it was also known as the Welf Party. See also Elder House of Welf The House of Welf (or House of Guelph) is a European Dynasty that has included many German and British It consistently had representation in the parliament of Prussia and sometimes the Reichstag until the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state The Reichstag ( German for "Imperial Diet " was the Parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933 Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The party was recreated as Niedersächsische Landespartei (Lower Saxony National Party) in 1945 but returned to being the German party the following year when Lower Saxony was created. Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ch is pronounced before an s --> lies in north-western Germany and is second It soon expanded into neighbouring Länder under the chairmanship of Heinrich Hellwege, working with parties such as the Deutsche Rechtspartei and the original National Democratic Party. Heinrich Peter Hellwege (born August 18 1908 in Neuenkirchen; died October 4 1991 ebenda was a German politician ( DP and Deutsche Rechtspartei (German Right Party was a German Right wing Political party that emerged after the Second World War. It gained two seats in the first Lower Saxon Landtag.
1949-1960
In the 1949 federal election the party 4% of the vote to win 18 seats. As a result it became a coalition partner of the Christian Democrats (CDU), the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the government of Konrad Adenauer. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest Political party in Germany. The Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP is a liberal Political party in Germany. Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer ( 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 was a German Statesman. Their vote fell to 3. 3% with 15 seats in the 1953 election, although they retained their coalition place and again in 1957 when they went back up to 17 seats with 3. 4% of the vote. German party ministers in these governments were Heinrich Hellwege (1949-1955), Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (1955-1960) and Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1949-1960). Hans-Christoph Seebohm ( 4 August 1903 in Emanuelssegen, Upper Silesia – 17 September 1967 in Bonn) was a
The party had been instrumental in setting an elected threshold of 5% for candidates and this led to problems when the CDU refused to allow German Party candidates a free run in some seats. With the party facing elimination from the Bundestag, nine of its 17 members left the party to join the CDU. The Bundestag ("Federal Diet " or "Lower House of German Parliament" is the Parliament of Germany. As a result the German Party left government in 1960, a year before the elections, and severed its ties to the CDU.
1961-1980
Cut off from the conservative mainstream the German Party began to work closely with parties to the right of the CDU, notably the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights, and in 1964 was one of the founding parts of the National Democratic Party (NPD), marking a temporary end to the German Party. The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Disenfrachised ( German: Gesamtdeutscher Block/Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten or GB/BHE was founded in 1950 The National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands NPD is a German pan-German nationalist and White nationalist political Party activist Friedrich Thielen was chosen as the leader of the new party but was ousted in 1967 by Adolf von Thadden. Friedrich-Georg "Fritz" Thielen (25 September 1916 in Bremen &ndash 11 June 1993 in Bremen) was a German politician with the Christian Democratic Adolf von Thadden (July 7 1921&ndashJuly 16 1996 in Bad Oeynhausen) was a leading Far right German politician Thielen left, as he felt von Thadden was too sympathetic to Nazism, and re-founded the German Party. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German However the new incarnation failed to become even a local force and ceased to operate as a political party in 1980 (although it continued as an association).
Current German Party
The German Party was reformed in Kassel in 1993 and has since worked with other right wing parties such as Bund freier Bürger and Freiheitliche Deutsche Volkspartei (a splinter group of the German People's Union in Saxony-Anhalt which it absorbed in 2003). Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the The German People's Union (Deutsche Volksunion DVU is a Nationalist Political party in Germany. Saxony-Anhalt ( Sachsen-Anhalt) is one of the sixteen ''Bundesländer'' (federal states that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. The new party was led by Johannes Freiherr von Campenhausen until 2001 when Heiner Kappel took his place. Kappel was expelled in 2005 after attempting to agree an alliance with the Republicans and the German Social Union even though the membership had supported working with the German People's Union and the NPD. The Republicans (Die Republikaner REP) is a Nationalist conservative Political party in Germany. The German Social Union (Deutsche Soziale Union is a small conservative opposition group active in the eastern German states since 1990 A joint leadership of Eberhard Lehmann, Claudia Wiechmann (former chair of the FDVP) and Ulrich Paetzold took over before Lehmann was sidelined in favour of a joint leadership. The party has been investigated in Thuringia and Bavaria as possibly extreme right, with the conclusion made that contacts exist but not enough to ban the party. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 The German party no longer has representation at any major level, having only a small number of local seats. It produces a monthly newspaper, the Deutschland-Post. Some members have left to join the Republicans whilst co-operate with the far-right NPD.
Bibliography
- Horst W. Schmollinger, Kapitel Deutsche Partei in: "Parteien-Handbuch", Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1983.
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