German-Baltic unification party

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The German-Baltic Unification Party ( DbEP ) was a party of the German minority in Latvia between 1920 and 1934.

The DbEP was founded on February 25, 1920. The chairman was Egon Knopp (1876–1933) from 1920 to 1925 , E. Ehlers from 1925 to 1933 and Otto Dollinger (* 1880) from 1933 to 1934 .

The party, which represented bourgeois positions in the center, saw itself as a special representative of Libau . She appeared in elections to the Saeima as part of the Committee of the German Baltic Parties . With Egon Knopp and John Carl Hahn it provided a total of two MPs.

After a coup d'état on May 15, 1934 , the parties, including the German-Baltic Unification Party, were banned by Kārlis Ulmanis and the Saeima dissolved.

literature

  • Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 137 .