Schleswig-Holstein farmers and agricultural workers democracy

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The Schleswig-Holstein Farmers' and Agricultural Workers' Democracy ( SHBLD ), later Schleswig-Holstein State Party ( SHLP ), was a regionalist farmers' party in Schleswig-Holstein during the Weimar Republic .

History and program

The SHBLD was founded in December 1918 by members of the Schleswig-Holstein Farmers 'Association because they did not see the other parties ' peasant interests sufficiently represented. The party won a mandate in the elections to the Weimar National Assembly , in which it entered into a list connection with the DDP and the Center Party , and to the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly in January 1919 . In 1921 the party, which had meanwhile been renamed SHLP, lost its parliamentary representation and ran for the last time in May 1924 for the Reichstag . The former general secretary of the party and later Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein and Reich Commissioner for Ostland , Hinrich Lohse , joined the NSDAP in 1923 .

Programmatically, the SHBLD saw itself as representing the interests of the peasant and rural petty bourgeoisie, as anti-centralist or regionalist, as anti-socialist, and advocated economic policy that was friendly to small and medium-sized businesses . Anti-Semitic and agrarian romantic elements played a strong role in the party's propaganda .

The party published the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper as the official organ .

Election results

National Assembly / Reichstag

  • Election to the National Assembly January 19, 1919: 57,913 votes (0.19% / 7.34% in Schleswig-Holstein) - 1 mandate ( Detlef Thomsen , from August 1919 Philipp Johannsen - due to the referendum in Schleswig-Holstein , the mandate was also valid until for by-election in February 1921 as a Reichstag mandate)
  • Reichstag by-election on February 20, 1921: 25,907 votes (0.09% / 3.73% in Schleswig-Holstein) - 0 seats
  • Reichstag election on May 4, 1924: 5652 votes (0.0% / 0.77% in Schleswig-Holstein) - 0 seats

Prussian Landtag

  • Constituent Prussian State Assembly January 26, 1919: 61,565 votes (0.36% / 8.48% in Schleswig-Holstein) - 1 mandate
  • Election to the Prussian Landtag February 20, 1921: 28,038 votes (0.17% / 4.13% in Schleswig-Holstein) - 0 seats

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