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German People's Party

This article is about the German People's Party which existed between 1918 and 1933. For other parties with same name, see German People's Party (disambiguation).
German People's Party
Deutsche Volkspartei
LeaderGustav Stresemann
Founded15 December 1918 (15 December 1918)
Dissolved4 July 1933 (4 July 1933)
Preceded byNational Liberal Party
Free Conservative Party (moderate elements)
Merged intoFree Democratic Party
(not legal successor)
HeadquartersBerlin
Membership (1920)800,000[1]
IdeologyNational liberalism[2][3][4]
Civic nationalism[5]
Conservative liberalism[6]
Constitutional monarchism[7]
Economic liberalism[8][5]
Political positionBefore 1929:
Centre-right[9][10]
After 1929:
Right-wing[11]
Colors  Black   White   Red (imperial colors)

The German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei, DVP) was a conservative-liberal political party during the Weimar Republic that was the successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire. Along with the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933.

The party's best known politician was its founding chairman and later Chancellor and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. With the exception of two short-lived cabinets in 1921 and 1922, the DVP was represented in all Weimar governments from 1920 to 1931. In the late 1920s it turned more to the right politically but could not compete with other nationalist parties. By 1932 the DVP's share of the vote had shrunk to barely over one percent, and it disbanded shortly after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.

  1. ^ Burkhard Asmuss (8 June 2011). "Die Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP)". Deutsches Historisches Museum.
  2. ^ Dittberner, Jürgen (2008), Sozialer Liberalismus: Ein Plädoyer, Logos, pp. 55, 58.
  3. ^ Neugebauer, Wolfgang, ed. (2000), Handbuch der Preussischen Geschichte, vol. 3, de Gruyter, p. 221.
  4. ^ Van De Grift, Liesbeth (2012), Securing the Communist State: The Reconstruction of Coercive Institutions in the Soviet Zone of Germany and Romania, 1944–48, Lexington Books, p. 41.
  5. ^ a b Lee, Stephen J. (1998), The Weimar Republic, Routledge, p. 23.
  6. ^ Stanley G. Payne (1 January 1996). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-299-14873-7.
  7. ^ Mommsen, Hans (1989), The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy, Propyläen Verlag, p. 51.
  8. ^ Gerstenberg, Frank. "27.6.1933: DVP und DNVP lösen sich auf". Kalenderblatt, Deutsche Welle.
  9. ^ Matthew Stibbe, ed. (2013). Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture. Routledge. p. 212. ISBN 9781317866541. Deutsche Volkspartei (German People's Party) — centre-right pro-business party, ...
  10. ^ Nadine Rossol; Nadine Rossol; Benjamin Ziemann, eds. (2022). The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic. Oxford University Press. p. 462. ISBN 9780198845775. The centre-right German People's Party (Deutsche Volkspartei, DVP) and the conservative DNVP were able to benefit, for a while, from the decline of their left-liberal competitor.
  11. ^ Evans, Richard J. (2003). The Coming of the Third Reich. New York City: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-0141009759.

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