Deutschsoziale Reformpartei

The German Social Reform Party (German:Deutschsoziale Reformpartei or DSRP) was a German Empire antisemitic political party active from 1894 to 1900. It was a merger between the German Reform Party (DRP) and the German Social Party (DSP).

In the early 1890s political antisemitism in Germany was represented by both the DRP (led by Otto Böckel and Oswald Zimmermann) and DSP of Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg, with the latter being closer to mainstream conservative politics than the more radical DRP. Both parties had minor representation in the Reichstag, where they co-operated. When a merger was suggested the main impetus within the DRP came from Zimmermann, with Böckel in favour of maintaining separate existences. Ultimately however the merger was concluded in 1894 and Böckel, who had lost his Reichstag seat the previous year, left politics. A conference in Eisenach proclaimed the merger and the formation of the new party.

Antisemitism was the main basis of the party's ideology, uniting at times disparate elements of the group. They were active in 1898 in support of campaigns to restrict the immigration of Russian Jews into Germany and argued that such laws could form the basis of their ultimate aim of removing rights from all Jews in Germany. The party sought close links with the German National Association of Commercial Employees, a white collar worker union that had a strong antisemitic current to its thinking. The DSRP adopted a strong Christian identity to its antisemitism and amongst those to sit for the party in the Reichstag was Karl Iskraut, a Protestant clergyman. It also sought to build up links with the Sittlichkeitsverein, a loose confederation of "morality leagues" that campaigned against prostitution and in favour of censorship, and whose support was also courted by the German Conservative Party and the Centre Party.

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