German Democratic Freedom Party

German Democratic Freedom Party , or DDFP for short (Czech Německá Demokratieická svobodomyslná strana ) was a political party in the first Czechoslovak Republic that represented part of the German minority .

history

In September 1919 the German Democratic Freedom Party was founded, which saw itself in the tradition of German liberalism Austria-Hungary and the former German Progressive Party . She demanded the autonomy of the Sudeten Germans , but was not a radical opponent of the Czechoslovak state. The voters included members of the liberal professions, intellectuals and many German-speaking Jews . The Bohemia newspaper was politically close to her. Important representatives were Bruno Kafka , Ludwig Spiegel and Franz Bacher . In the parliamentary elections in 1920 she ran her own list. Later she formed list communities with Hungarian and Carpathian German parties. With the rise of the Sudeten German Party , it lost its importance.

literature

Iris Nachum: The German Democratic Freedom Party in Czechoslovakia . In: Heuss-Forum 6/2017.

Individual evidence

^ Mads Ole Balling : German Democratic Freedom Party (DDFP) . In: ders .: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5 , pp. 265 f.

[1] Mads Ole Balling : German Democratic Freedom Party (DDFP) . In: ders .: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5 , pp. 265 f.