German National People's Party facts for kids

German National People's Party
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
Party flag
	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

Clemens von Delbrück served as the DNVP's chief spokesman during the National Assembly that wrote the constitution of 1919
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
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
Kuno von Westarp (second from the left) together with Hohenzollern princes at the DNVP convention, 1924
The DNVP campaigns for Paul von Hindenburg in the 1925 election
In October 1928, Westarp was deposed as the DNVP's leader
Franz Seldte (right) with Alfred Hugenberg and Major Franz von Stephani at a rally against the Young Plan, Berlin Sportpalast, 1929
Antisemitic DNVP slogan during elections in 1930
DNVP convention in 1932
Hugenberg (on the left) and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, 10 October 1931
Theodor Duesterberg (right) with Hugenberg (left) in 1932
The DNVP campaigns in Berlin, July 1932
Poster for the nationalist Black-White-Red coalition of DVNP leader Hugenberg, Franz von Papen and Franz Seldte for the elections of March 1933
Carl Goerdeler, a leading figure in the DNVP until 1931, would have served as Chancellor if the 20 July plot of 1944 had succeeded