German-Baltic Reform Party

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

The DbRP was founded on January 25, 1920. The chairman was Edwin Magnus (1888–1974) from 1920 to 1932 and Lothar Schoeler (1881–1945) from 1932 to 1934 .

The party, which represented bourgeois positions in the center, appeared in elections to the Saeima as part of the committee of the Baltic German parties . With Edwin Magnus, Lothar Schoeler and Manfred von Vegesack, it provided a total of three members.

After a coup d'état on May 15, 1934 , the parties, including the German Baltic Reform 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 Southeast Europe 1919–1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 136 .