Rhenish-Westphalian People's Party
The Rhenish-Westphalian People's Party (short name: RWVP ) was a political party in Germany that was founded in 1946 and took part in the 1949 federal election .
history
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The party was created in February 1946 through the merger of several parties under the name Rheinische Volkspartei - Rheinisch-Westfälische Heimatpartei (first RhVP , then RVP ). In May and July 1946, the Rhenish Workers 'and Peasants' Party and the Democratic-Socialist Union joined the RVP. It was renamed the Rhenish-Westphalian People's Party (RWVP) in January 1949. After the federal election in 1949, the party increasingly lost its importance. The duration of the continuation after 1949 has not been clarified. As far as can be determined, she ran - albeit unsuccessfully - for the last time in the local elections in 1952 .
The party color was green and white in the Rhineland , red and white in Westphalia , red and yellow in the Lippe region and red, white, green and yellow in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The regional importance was mainly limited to the cities of Aachen , Düren and Euskirchen .
In the municipal elections in Aachen in October 1946, the RVP won its only seat in parliament with 7.8%. In the North Rhine-Westphalian state election on April 20, 1947, the party received a little more than 13,000 votes and thus 0.27 percent of the total number of votes. In the local elections in 1948, the party managed to get into some district assemblies and city councils. The first federal election on August 14, 1949 ended for the RWVP as the party with the fewest votes nationwide; 21,931 voters gave a total of 0.09 percent of the votes.
Political goals
It was regarded as an “ autonomist and separatist- oriented medium-sized home party” with contacts to the Palatinate separatists and in connection with the Rhenish Republic . With the slogan “The Rhineland of the Rhineland”, the party called for an “independent Rhineland in a federalist confederation on a broad European basis”. The initially separatist course was probably abandoned as early as 1947, after which the party represented partly autonomist, partly federalist goals.
Local election results
Results of the party in the local elections in 1946 and 1948 in%:
| year |
AC city |
AC Lkr. |
BN city |
BN Lkr. |
D city |
DN Lkr. |
EU Lkr. |
KR city |
MG city |
RY city |
SU Lkr. |
VIE city |
W city |
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| 1946 | 7.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 0.1 | |||
| 1948 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Abbreviations: Heading of table: Vehicle registration number (distinctive sign); Lkr. = District
literature
- Peter Schindler : Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999. Complete edition in three volumes. A publication by the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-5928-5 , p. 130 ( download ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seperatistenpartei in the Rhineland. In: Neue Zeit dated February 6, 1946, p. 2 ( online ( memento of the original dated March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ).
- ↑ Bucks in the Rhenish Garden. Free Rhinelander met. In: Der Spiegel , issue 3/1947 from January 18, 1947 ( online ).
- ↑ Uniform zones in the fight. Five became eight. In: Der Spiegel , issue 14/1947 of April 3, 1947 ( online ).
- ↑ Are you not ashamed. Splinters in the framework. In: Der Spiegel , issue 27/1948 of July 3, 1948 ( online ).
- ↑ There is no longer any Germany. We don't go along with this nonsense. In: Der Spiegel , issue 49/1947 of December 6, 1947 ( online ).
- ↑ The Diet in the West. In: Neue Zeit from April 22, 1947, p. 1 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ); State election of North Rhine-Westphalia 1947 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: tagesschau.de, accessed on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ Election to the 1st German Bundestag on August 14, 1949 ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: bundeswahlleiter.de, accessed on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ Separatism in the Rhineland. In: Berliner Zeitung of March 22, 1946, p. 1 ( online ( memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ); Steeple imperialism. In: Berliner Zeitung of April 3, 1946, p. 3 ( online ( memento of the original of March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. )
- ↑ There is no longer any Germany. We don't go along with this nonsense. In: Der Spiegel , issue 49/1947 of December 6, 1947 ( online ).
- ↑ 1946
- ↑ 1948
