Bavarian Middle Party

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The Bavarian Middle Party ( BMP ) was a bourgeois party of national character in Bavaria . The BMP was founded by former members of the conservative and national liberal parties of the German Empire on November 24, 1918 in Nuremberg .

history

The supporters of the party was fed by Protestant circles of the educated middle class and the civil service and the Protestant Franconian middle class and Kleinbauerntums. She joined the DNVP in March 1920 and formed its Bavarian regional association from then on, but was more federal and monarchistic than the rest of the party. It kept the designation BMP until 1924. In the state elections in January 1919 she received 5 of 180 seats, in June 1920 together with the DNVP (list connection and parliamentary group) 20 of 155; in April 1924 she participated in a listing alliance of the United National Right, which received a total of 11 seats out of 129; in May 1928 the DNVP received 13 mandates and in April 1932 3 mandates (of 128 each). The BMP was represented in the Bavarian cabinet from July 1920 to September 1921 by Justice Minister Christian Roth and from August 1922 to June 1932 by Justice Minister Franz Gürtner .

In the 1925 presidential election, the Bavarian Central Party voted for Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg .

literature

  • Karl Schwend: Bavaria between monarchy and dictatorship. Contributions to the Bavarian question from 1918 to 1933. Pflaum, Munich 1954.
  • Hans Fenske : Conservatism and right-wing radicalism after 1918. Gehlen, Bad Homburg vd H. et al. 1969.
  • Karl Römer (editor): Lexicon on history and politics in the 20th century. Volume 1: A - K. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-462-00781-5 , p. 73.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Bavarian Middle Party (BMP) - German National People's Party (DNVP), 1918-1932 / 33. Retrieved May 10, 2013 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , p. 64.