German Party (Slovakia)

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The German Party was the successor organization of the Carpathian German Party from 1938 to 1945, the National Socialist rallying movement of the German minority in Slovakia (especially in the First Slovak Republic ).

The German Party was founded in Pressburg on October 8, 1938 . The chairman (" ethnic group leader ") was Franz Karmasin . As a party newspaper, the party published the Grenzbote and the Germans' votes .

In the “elections” for the autonomous Slovak state parliament on December 18, 1938, two representatives of the German party were elected: Besides Franz Karmasin, this was Josef Steinhübl . Later, Sigmund Keil was accepted as a replacement for Gejza Rehák and Adalbert Gabriel as an appointed member as further German representatives in the Snem. The MPs joined the HSĽS faction .

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 2, 2nd edition. Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , pp. 659-667.