Dansk Folkeparti (1941)

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The Dansk Folkeparti was a Danish party that existed from 1941 to 1943 during the German occupation of Denmark . It brought together members from conservatives , social democrats , Danmarks Retsforbund and the Danish National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP). It remained politically insignificant.

The Dansk Folkeparti called for a corporate state and represented fascist ideas. It defined itself as a Danish patriotic party and attacked Frits Clausen's DNSAP for its pro-German stance. After the Second World War, however, some of its founders were themselves indicted and convicted of treason.

The party was founded on March 1, 1941. Chairman was initially Victor Pürschel, until 1938 a member of the Conservatives and 1922–1928 group leader in the Danish Parliament. Because the Dansk Folkeparti under its organizational leader Wilfred Petersen (previously head of the Nazi Dansk Socialistisk Parti) increasingly oriented itself National Socialist and anti-Semitic, Pürschel and most of the other leading members left the party again in the course of 1941. In order to achieve parliamentary representation, In 1941 a member of the DNSAP was bribed to convert. He left the party in 1943, which meant that they were not eligible for the Folketing election on March 23, 1943. Consequently, the Dansk Folkeparti called on its supporters to boycott the election.

Today's Dansk Folkeparti was founded in 1995 and has no connection to the former party of the same name.

literature

  • Victor Pürschel: Ret course. Et længdesnit . Copenhagen 1957