Württemberg Citizens' Party

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The Württemberg Citizens' Party was the state party of the German National People's Party (DNVP) in the People's State of Württemberg . After the First World War, the members of the conservatives and the right wing of the national liberal German party as well as many formerly non-party citizens gathered here .

history

Because of the high proportion of former National Liberals, the Württemberg Citizens 'Party was somewhat more moderate than the right-wing parent party DNVP, but the Citizens' Party also rejected the Weimar Republic in principle. In its party program of 1919, the Citizens' Party renounced an outspoken commitment to the fallen monarchy and promised participation in any form of government, but its members would have preferred a return to the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Until 1924, the citizens' party was in opposition in the Württemberg state parliament . With the evangelical Württemberg farmers and vineyard association , the citizens' party formed a parliamentary group in the state parliament and in the Reichstag since 1919 . A certain division of labor was established, as a result of which the citizens 'party placed more emphasis on the work in the Reichstag and the farmers' union was more active in the state parliament.

The leading politician of the civil party in the first half of the twenties was the militant Wilhelm Bazille , who became President of the State of Württemberg and Minister of Culture in 1924 . The Citizens' Party was thus the ruling party in Württemberg from 1924 to 1933, initially in a coalition with the Farmers and Vineyards Association and the Catholic Center Party . The second state minister from the citizens' party, alongside Bazille, was Alfred Dehlinger , who headed the Württemberg finance department from 1924 to 1942. The official chairman of the Citizens' Party in its early years was the theologian Gustav Beißwänger , but at the end of 1924 he was ousted by the lawyer Friedrich Wider and the chemical industrialist Ernst Schott. Wider and Schott began a process that brought the citizens' party in line with the overall party under Alfred Hugenberg . Since 1928 the citizens 'party has officially called itself the "Württemberg State Association of the German National People's Party (Württemberg Citizens' Party)". Walter Hirzel took over the state chairmanship in the spring of 1927. Wilhelm Bazille resigned from the citizens' party in 1930 because of his opposition to Hugenberg's policy. The party dissolved after Hitler's " seizure of power " in 1933.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The official spelling for the term “ Minister of Culture ” used today was formerly Minister of Culture in Württemberg

literature

  • Reinhold Weber : Citizens 'party and farmers' union in Württemberg. Conservative parties in the German Empire and in Weimar (1895–1933) (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 141). Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5259-5 (also: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 2003).