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The Sächsisches Landvolk (SLV) was an agricultural interest party with a conservative political orientation that existed in the Weimar Republic from 1928 to 1932 in the Free State of Saxony . In terms of personnel, it was closely interlinked with the Saxon Land Federation . At times, the SLV worked closely with the Christian National Farmers and Rural People's Party (CNBL) and the German National People's Party (DNVP) .

history

The Saxon Landvolk came into being against the background of the agricultural crisis towards the end of the Weimar Republic and as a result of increasing dissatisfaction with the agricultural policy of the DNVP at the Reich level, with which the state organizations of the Reichslandbund (including the Saxon Landbund) had been closely connected both politically and personally. Three of the five members of the SLV in the 4th electoral period (1929/30) were previously members of the DNVP parliamentary group. Following a request from the representatives' assembly of the Saxon Land Federation, four of the five members of the SLV's 5th electoral term (1930–33) joined the DNVP parliamentary group on February 3, 1932.

The relationship with the Christian-National Peasant and Rural People's Party, which was established in 1928 and had its main focus in Saxony in the Reichstag constituency of Chemnitz-Zwickau, was also characterized by phases of cooperation and demarcation. In the Reichstag elections, the SLV distinguished itself from the CNBL and drew up its own list. In 1930 the SLV was part of the CNBL's national election proposal. Two years later there was another demarcation from this party after the Saxon Landbund, like the Reichslandbund, had joined the "national opposition" ( Harzburg Front ) and no longer considered a separate peasant party to be sensible. In the period that followed, the NSDAP increasingly prevailed in the federal state and also in the elections in the rural areas.

elections

Parliament

The SLV ran for the first time in the Reichstag election in 1928 and received 4.67 percent, which corresponded to two seats taken by the previous DNVP MPs Alwin Domsch and Albrecht Philipp , who joined the DNVP faction in the Reichstag.

In the Reichstag election in 1930, the SLV achieved 4.02 percent as a district nomination by the CNBL in the constituencies of Dresden-Bautzen and Leipzig and as part of the imperial election nomination list. Domsch moved back into the Reichstag, Philipp was replaced by Karl Heinrich Sieber .

Parliament

In the 1929 state elections, the SLV received 5.20 percent, which corresponds to five seats. This enabled the SLV to form its own parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament. The first chairman was the Landbund chairman Max Schreiber , who was soon replaced by his previous deputy Richard Schladebach , who then held this office until the parliamentary group dissolved itself.

In the state elections in 1930 4.61 percent, which again corresponded to five seats. On September 30, 1930, the MP Kurt Fritzsche declared his resignation from the DNVP parliamentary group and joined the SLV parliamentary group as an intern.

On February 3, 1932 the parliamentary group of the SLV disbanded, four members of the DNVP group joined.

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  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and MPs from 1833–1952 . Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001.
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. The members and electoral districts of the Saxon state parliaments (1833–1952). Part II: 1919-1952 . Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2011. pp. 20–45.
  • Markus Müller: The Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party 1928–1933 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 129), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5235-8 , pp. 466–473 .

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