Christian Social Party (Germany)
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Christian Social Party
Christlich–soziale Partei |
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| Founded | 1 February 1878 |
| Dissolved | November 1918 |
| Succeeded by | German National People's Party |
| Ideology |
Traditionalist conservatism, Christian ethics, Antisemitism, Anti-capitalism, Monarchism, Political Protestantism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
The Christian Social Party (German: Christlich–soziale Partei, CSP) was a right-wing political party in the German Empire, founded in 1878 by Adolf Stoecker as the Christlichsoziale Arbeiterpartei (Christian Social Workers' Party). The party combined a strong Christian and conservative programme with progressive ideas on labour, and tried to provide an alternative for disillusioned Social Democrat voters. Part of the Berlin movement, it increasingly focused on the "Jewish question" with a distinct antisemitic attitude.
In December 1877 Stoecker, domestic chaplain at the court of Emperor Wilhelm I and board member of the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union, together with the economist Adolph Wagner had founded the Central Association for Social Reform (Zentralverein für Sozialreform), dealing with injustice and poverty after the Industrial Revolution. The organization was meant to counter the rise of the presumably revolutionary Social Democratic Party and to answer the urging social question on the basis of Protestant religion and monarchism. It was constituted as a laborers' party on 1 February 1878.
The program of the CSP included:
In turn, Social Democrats like Johann Most led a large conjugation in protesting against the party and its "christianity", while the reformist approach repelled social conservative voters. In the 1878 elections, the party obtained less than 1% of the vote, thereby failing to enter the German Reichstag parliament.
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