German National People's Party

German National People's Party Deutschnationale Volkspartei
Other name	German National Front (May–June 1933)[1]
Abbreviation	DNVP
Chairman	List Oskar Hergt (1918–1924) Johann Friedrich Winckler (1924–1926) Kuno Graf von Westarp (1926–1928) Alfred Hugenberg (1928–1933)
Founded	24 November 1918
Dissolved	27 June 1933[2]
Merger of	• German Fatherland Party  • German Social Party[3]  • German Völkisch Party[4]  • German Conservative Party  • Free Conservative Party  • Christian Social Party[4]  • National Liberal Party (far-right faction)
Succeeded by	Pre-war: Single-party system of the NSDAP Post-war: Deutsche Rechtspartei (DKP-DRP)[5][6]
Newspaper	Supported by the Hugenberg Group[7]
Youth wing	Bismarckjugend
Paramilitary wings	• Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten  • Kampfstaffeln
Policy institute	Pan-German League
Women’s wing	Queen Louise League (unofficial)
Trade unions	• Deutschnational Arbeiterbund  • Deutschnationaler Angestelltenbund
Membership	950,000 (c. 1923)
Ideology	Pan-Germanism German nationalism National conservatism[8] Social conservatism Military rearmament Right-wing populism[9][10] Volksgemeinschaft Authoritarian conservatism[11] Reactionary monarchism[12][13][14] Anti-Treaty of Versailles Anti-communism Antisemitism[15]
Political position	Right-wing[16][17] to far-right^a[›][18][19]
Political alliance	• Opposition to the Young Plan (1929)  • Harzburg Front (1931)
Electoral alliance	Black-White-Red Struggle Front (1933)
Colours	Black,   white and   red (official, German Imperial colours)   Light blue (customary)
Seats in the Reichstag (1924)	103 / 493
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Politics of Germany Political parties ^ a: The German National People's Party (DNVP) was divided between reactionary conservative monarchists and more radical völkisch and anti-semitic elements.

The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei and short: DNVP) was national-conservative party of the time of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This party was founded in 1918, after World War I. In June 1933, the DNVP merged with the NSDAP.

Chairman

• 1918 to 1924 Oskar Hergt (1869-1967)
• 1924 to 1928 Kuno Graf von Westarp (1864-1945)
• 1928 to 1933 Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951)

References

1. Leopold, John Alfred Hugenberg The Radical Nationalist Campaign against the Weimar Republic, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977 page 149.
2. "Nazis Outlaw Nationalists As Rival Party", Milwaukee Sentinel, June 28, 1933, p2
3. Larry Eugene Jones, The German Right in the Weimar Republic: Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, Berghahn Books, 2014, p. 80
4. Winkler, Heinrich August (2000), Germany: The Long Road West, 1789–1933, Oxford University Press, p. 352
5. R. Eatwell, Fascism: A History, London: Pimlico, 2003, p. 277
6. Dudek, Peter; Jaschke, Hans-Gerd (1984). Entstehung und Entwicklung des Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik. Vol. 1. Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 181–201.
7. Robert Wistrich, Who's Who in Nazi Germany, Bonanza Books, 1984, p. 157
8. Ulrike Ehret (2012). "The Catholic right, political Catholicism and radicalism: the Catholic right in Germany". Church, Nation and Race: Catholics and Antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918-45. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-84779-452-9.
9. Kitchen, Martin (2006), Europe Between the Wars: A Political History (Second ed.), Pearson Education, p. 249
10. Barth, Boris (2006), Genozid: Völkermord im 20. Jahrhundert : Geschichte, Theorien, Kontroversen (in German), C. H. Beck, p. 176
11. Seymour M. Lipset, "Social Stratification and 'Right-Wing Extremism'" British Journal of Sociology 10#4 (1959), pp. 346-382 on-line
12. Serge, Victor (2011), Witness to the German Revolution, Haymarket Books, p. 232
13. Gunlicks, Arthur B. (2011), Comparing Liberal Democracies: The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the European Union, iUniverse, p. 127
14. Ringer, Fritz K. (1990), The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890–1933, University Press of New England, p. 201
15. Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. (Princeton: Princeton University, 2007), 95–96.
16. Jones, Larry Eugene; Retallack, James (1992). Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 11. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
17. Stibbe, Matthew (2010). Germany, 1914–1933: Politics, Society and Culture. Pearson Education. p. 212.
18. Caldwell, Peter C. (1997), Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory & Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism, Duke University Press, p. 74
19. Caldwell, Peter C. (2008), "The Citizen and the Republic in Germany, 1918–1935", Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany, Stanford University Press, p. 48