German National People's Party facts for kids

Quick facts for kids German National People's Party Deutschnationale Volkspartei
Other name	German National Front (May–June 1933)
Abbreviation	DNVP
Chairman	List Oskar Hergt (1918–1924) Johann Friedrich Winckler (1924–1926) Kuno Graf von Westarp (1926–1928) Alfred Hugenberg (1928–1933)
Founded	24 November 1918
Dissolved	27 June 1933
Merger of	• German Fatherland Party  • German Social Party  • German Völkisch Party  • German Conservative Party  • Free Conservative Party  • Christian Social Party  • National Liberal Party (far-right faction)
Succeeded by	Pre-war: Single-party system of the NSDAP Post-war: Deutsche Rechtspartei (DKP-DRP)
Newspaper	Supported by the Hugenberg Group
Youth wing	Bismarckjugend
Paramilitary wings	• Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten  • Kampfstaffeln
Policy institute	Pan-German League
Women’s wing	Queen Louise League (unofficial)
Trade unions	• Deutschnational Arbeiterbund  • Deutschnationaler Angestelltenbund
Membership	950,000 (c. 1923)
Ideology	Pan-Germanism German nationalism National conservatism Social conservatism Military rearmament Right-wing populism Volksgemeinschaft Authoritarian conservatism Reactionary monarchism Anti-Treaty of Versailles Anti-communism Antisemitism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Political alliance	• Opposition to the Young Plan (1929)  • Harzburg Front (1931)
Electoral alliance	Black-White-Red Struggle Front (1933)
Colours	Black,      white and      red (official, German Imperial colours)      Light blue (customary)
Seats in the Reichstag (1924)	103 / 493
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Politics of Germany Political parties ^ a: The German National People's Party (DNVP) was divided between reactionary conservative monarchists and more radical völkisch and anti-semitic elements.

The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei and short: DNVP) was national-conservative party of the time of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This party was founded in 1918, after World War I. In June 1933, the DNVP merged with the NSDAP.

Chairman

• 1918 to 1924 Oskar Hergt (1869-1967)
• 1924 to 1928 Kuno Graf von Westarp (1864-1945)
• 1928 to 1933 Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951)

Images for kids

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  A DNVP poster from 1920 showing a Teutonic knight being attacked by Poles and socialists as the caption reads "Save the East"

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  Clemens von Delbrück served as the DNVP's chief spokesman during the National Assembly that wrote the constitution of 1919

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  Reinhold Wulle (left) was one of the leaders of the DNVP's völkisch wing in the early 1920s who walked out of the party in 1922

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  Oskar Hergt, the DNVP's first leader from 1918 to 1924 whose Dawes Plan vote of 1924 proved to be the end of his leadership

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  In 1924, the DNVP made a major push to have Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz as Chancellor, sparking widespread international condemnation

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  Kuno von Westarp (second from the left) together with Hohenzollern princes at the DNVP convention, 1924

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  The DNVP campaigns for Paul von Hindenburg in the 1925 election

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  In October 1928, Westarp was deposed as the DNVP's leader

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  Franz Seldte (right) with Alfred Hugenberg and Major Franz von Stephani at a rally against the Young Plan, Berlin Sportpalast, 1929

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  Antisemitic DNVP slogan during elections in 1930

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  DNVP convention in 1932

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  Hugenberg (on the left) and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, 10 October 1931

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  Theodor Duesterberg (right) with Hugenberg (left) in 1932

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  The DNVP campaigns in Berlin, July 1932

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  Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, whose advice to President Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor in January 1933 played an important role in bringing Hitler to power