Party of the Germans of Lithuania
The Party of the Germans of Lithuania ( PDL ) was a party of the German minority in Lithuania from 1920 to 1935.
In early 1920 the PDL was founded in the run-up to the election to the Constituent Assembly. In the election to the Constituent Assembly, it received 7,235 votes and a mandate. The party was politically in the middle of the spectrum and bourgeois. Their aim was to represent German interests in the Seimas . She called for cultural autonomy and equal rights for the German population group.
The party never succeeded in building a strong party apparatus. It mainly appeared in the run-up to elections. The founding chairman was Wilhelm Kruck , who was later replaced by Rudolf Kinder . In 1935 the party was removed from the register of associations for inaction and thus dissolved.
| choice | be right | Mandates | MPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 7,235 | 1 | Rudolf Kinder (until June 18, 1920), Oskar von Blücher (June 16 to September 25, 1920) |
| 1922 | 15,899 | ./. | |
| 1923 | (Voting block with Russians and Jews) | 2 | Rudolf Kinder, August Rogall |
| 1926 | 11,858 | 1 | Rudolf children |
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 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 160 .