German Volkische Reichspartei

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The Deutschvölkische Reichspartei (DVRP) was a small ethnic party that ran in the Reichstag election in December 1924 only in the Baden constituency without receiving a mandate.

The initiator of the party was Arnold Ruge , a philosopher and former lecturer at Heidelberg University , who, after an anti-Semitic speech in 1920, had his teaching license withdrawn for insulting the rector of the university and its faculty. Ruge moved to Munich, where, among other things, he was active in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and was in contact with the NSDAP . In early 1923 he distanced himself from the NSDAP, but not from Hitler . Ruge accused the National Socialists of having betrayed the true nationalist and anti-capitalist commandments through an alliance with the DNVP ; in addition, Hitler was surrounded by “scrap”.

After serving a prison sentence in Bavaria , Ruge returned to Baden in the summer of 1924, where he sought contact with National Socialists and ethnic groups who rejected the leadership of the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP). The NSFP, an alliance of National Socialists and Völkisch, served as a substitute organization for the NSDAP, which was banned after the Hitler putsch . Ruge found support in the Karlsruhe area , where he was joined by Robert Roth and Willi Worch , among others .

After the surprising dissolution of the Reichstag on October 21, 1924, Gregor Strasser , representative of the National Socialists in the Reich leadership of the NSFP, assured Ruge of the top candidacy in the Baden constituency. Despite the right to give instructions, Strasser was unable to assert himself against the NSFP regional association. An NSFP leaflet described Ruge as a “traitor” who was “known to the point of being ridiculous as a political demagogue and a fantasy”.

In the Reichstag election in December 1924, the DVRP only ran in the Baden constituency; Candidates were Ruge and Roth. The DVRP received 3405 votes; with 0.3% it lagged behind the NSFP in Baden, which reached 1.9% here. The DVRP achieved above-average results in northern Baden in the triangle between the cities of Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Wertheim and in the southern Baden districts of Emmendingen and Lörrach . In Roth's home community of Liedolsheim , 35.9% of voters voted for the DVRP, in the nearby towns of Linkenheim and Staffort it was 9.0% and 14.5%, respectively.

Roth and Worch joined the NSDAP after its readmission in 1925; Worch later became NSDAP district leader for Karlsruhe; From 1930 Roth was a member of the Reichstag for the National Socialists. Even at the end of 1932, Hitler rudely refused to work with Ruge.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Peter Horst Grill: The Nazi movement in Baden, 1920-1945. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1983, ISBN 0-8078-1472-5 , pp. 33, 105.
  2. ^ Grill, Nazi movement , p. 105.
  3. ↑ Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement." The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5237-4 , p. 434.
  4. ↑ Baden Statistical Office (ed.): The Reichstag election on December 7, 1924 in Baden. Karlsruhe 1926, p. 61.
  5. ^ Grill, Nazi movement , pp. 105f.
  6. ^ Frank Teske: The district of Karlsruhe in the Nazi era. A study on social, political and economic change using the example of the communities Berghausen, Jöhlingen, Linkenheim and Malsch. (= Contributions to the history of the district of Karlsruhe. Volume 4) Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2003, ISBN 3-89735-230-3 , p. 34.
  7. ^ Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: Ruge, Arnold Paul. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien . New series, volume 4. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-17-010731-3 , pp. 244-247 ( online ).