German People's Party
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German People's Party
Deutsche Volkspartei |
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| Leader | Gustav Stresemann |
| Founded | 15 December 1918 |
| Dissolved | 4 July 1933 |
| Preceded by | National Liberal Party |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Membership (1920) | 800,000 |
| Ideology |
National liberalism Civic nationalism Conservative liberalism Constitutional monarchism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| International affiliation | none |
| Colors | Black, white, red (imperial colors) |
The German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP) was a national liberal party in Weimar Germany and a successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire. A right-wing liberal or conservative-liberal party, its most famous member was Chancellor and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a 1926 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
It was essentially the main body of the old National Liberal Party (mostly its centre and right factions) combined with some of the more moderate elements of the Free Conservative Party and the Economic Union, and was formed in the early days of the Weimar Republic by Stresemann. During the Weimar Republic, it was one of two large liberal parties in Germany, the other being the left-liberal German Democratic Party.
The party was generally thought to represent the interests of the great German industrialists. Its platform stressed Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsides and hostility to "Marxism" (that is, the Communists, and also the Social Democrats). Due to its lukewarm acceptance of democracy, the party was initially part of the "national opposition" to the Weimar Coalition. However, Stresemann gradually led it into cooperation with the parties of the center and left.
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