German Social Party

The German Social Party (DSP) was a small German party that was only active in Lower Saxony .

The DSP was founded as a spin-off from the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE) first under the name of the German Social Party - Independent BHE on November 10, 1950 by friends of the former CDU Agriculture Minister of Lower Saxony, Günther Gereke . Gereke, who was elected to the state parliament for the CDU in 1947 and briefly belonged to the BHE parliamentary group in 1950, joined the DSP in January 1951.

In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1951 , the party received 25,546 votes, corresponding to 0.8% of the votes, and one seat for Gereke. The organizer of the election was the former SA leader Walther Stennes . Gereke held the seat until February 26, 1952 and moved to the GDR in the same year . The successor was Adolf Stobbe . Stobbe left the FdU ( faction of the independents ) on August 10 and later joined the SPD .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Winterhager: Günther Gereke: A minister in the field of tension of the cold war. 2002, p. 64.
2. ↑ Barbara Simon : MPs in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996.