Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party
The Christian National Peasants and Rural People's Party ( CNBL ), also known as rural people , was a German splinter party of the Weimar Republic .
The CNBL came into being in 1928 as one of several spin-offs from the DNVP in the wake of the rural people in need movement . It brought together in its ranks, both elected on CNBL lists in 1928 and later retired from the DNVP, moderate politicians of this party who had left the party in opposition to Alfred Hugenberg . In December 1929, the nine previously non-attached members of the CNBL, together with twelve members who had resigned from the DNVP parliamentary group, formed the Christian National Working Group in the Reichstag . The members of the party felt represented neither by the DNVP leadership under Hugenberg nor by the East Elbe large agrarians .
Programmatically, the rural people were an interest party of the Protestant rural population. In contrast to the DNVP, the CNBL tended to represent the small and medium-sized farmers and received the largest number of voters during the nationwide peasant crisis and the peasant uprisings in Schleswig-Holstein in 1930. The relative but unique election success in 1930 was clearly also due to the secessions in the DNVP. In 1928 , the CNBL won nine seats in the Reichstag with almost 600,000 voters . 1930, meanwhile renamed "Deutsches Landvolk" (the old party name was mostly added in brackets) and enriched by some dissidents from the DNVP, their number of votes grew to 1.1 million (= 3.2%), with which they 19 Could provide members of the Reichstag . Regionally it achieved remarkable results, so it was able to inherit the radicalized DNVP briefly in rural Protestant areas of Upper and Middle Franconia and became the strongest party in ten districts (then district offices ). In 1932, however, it lost almost all of its voters to the NSDAP .
In July 1932 , when the rural people with approx. 91,000 votes only united 0.2% of the valid votes cast, which meant a loss of approx. 90% of the electorate, the party appointed another member of the Reichstag. In the November 1932 elections , the number of votes was halved again: a good 46,000 votes (= 0.1%) were no longer enough for a mandate. In the 1933 Reichstag election , the party no longer ran.
Party leaders were Erwin Baum (1928–1930), Ernst Höfer (1930–1931) and Wolfgang von Hauenschild-Tscheidt (1931–1933).
With Martin Schiele (1930–1932 Reich Food Minister ) and - in the second cabinet - Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1931–1932 Reich Minister without Portfolio and Reich Commissioner for Eastern Aid), the party, whose 19 members initially played an essential role in the precarious majority in the Reichstag , in Heinrich Brüning's presidential cabinet a share that goes beyond their quantitative representation.
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literature
- Lutz Fahlbusch: Rural People Movement 1928–1932. In: Dieter Fricke , Werner Fritsch, Herbert Gottwald , Siegfried Schmidt , Manfred Weißbecker (eds.): Lexicon on the history of parties. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois parties and associations in Germany (1789–1945). Volume 3: General Association of German Employees' Unions - Reich and Free Conservative Party. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7609-0878-0 , pp. 347-353.
- Lutz Fahlbusch, Werner Methfessel: Christian National Peasant and Country People's Party (CNBL) 1928–1933 (German Country People). In: Dieter Fricke, Werner Fritsch, Herbert Gottwald, Siegfried Schmidt, Manfred Weißbecker (eds.): Lexicon on the history of parties. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois parties and associations in Germany (1789–1945). Volume 1: Pan-German Association - German League for Human Rights. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7609-0782-2 , pp. 434-439.
- Helmut Lensing: The rural people in need movement of 1928 in Emsland. In: Yearbook of the Emsland Heimatbund. Vol. 40, 1994, ISSN 0448-1410 , pp. 44-63.
- Markus Müller : The Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party 1928–1933 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. 129). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5235-8 .