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1 - Revolution and Realignment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2020

Larry Eugene Jones
Larry Eugene Jones
Affiliation:
Canisius College, New York
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Chapter 1 offers a brief overview of right-parties in the late Second Empire, including the German Fatherland Party, before moving to a more thorough analysis of the way in which the German Right reacted to Germany’s defeat in World War I and the revolutionary upheaval it left in its wake. It focuses in particular to unify the various factions of the German Right that had existed before World War I into a new political party, the German National People’s Party (DNVP), in preparation for the elections to the Weimar National Assembly and the Prussian Constitutional Assembly in January 1919. It also examines the reluctance with which the leaders of the German Conservative Party – in particular its parliamentary leader Count Kuno von Westarp – embraced the new party and the problem this posed for the DNVP’s future political development.

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Wilhelmine ConservatismGerman Conservative PartyWorld War IGerman Fatherland PartyNovember RevolutionDNVP1919 ElectionsantisemitismwomenNational Assembly
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The German Right, 1918–1930
Political Parties, Organized Interests, and Patriotic Associations in the Struggle against Weimar Democracy
 , pp. 16 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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