Conservative People's Party (Germany)

Conservative People's Party
Konservative Volkspartei
AbbreviationKVP
ChairmanGottfried Treviranus (28 January 1930 - 15 December 1930)
Paul Lejeune-Jung 15 December 1930 - 11 June 1932
Heinz Dähnhardt (11 June 1932 - 31 March 1933)
Founded28 January 1930
Dissolved31 March 1933
Preceded byPeople's Conservative Association
German National People's Party (DNVP) (splinter factions)[1]
Succeeded byNone
NewspaperVolkskonservative Stimmen (People's Conservative Voices).
Membership10,000
IdeologyConservatism
Christian Democracy[2]
Political positionRight-wing
Political allianceCentre Party (Heinrich Brüning)

The Conservative People's Party (German: Konservative Volkspartei, KVP) was a short-lived conservative and Christian democratic political party of the moderate right in the last years of the Weimar Republic. It broke away from the German National People's Party (DNVP) in July 1930 as a result of the DNVP's increasing shift to the right under the leadership of Alfred Hugenberg.[3] It remained a numerically insignificant minor party but was represented in the governments of Heinrich Brüning (1930–1932). The KVP folded on 31 March 1933 after it ran out of funds.

  1. ^ Jonas, Erasmus (1965) Die Volkskonservativen 1928–1933. Entwicklung, Struktur, Standort und staatspolitische Zielsetzung (= Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Bd. 30) [The Volkskonservativen 1928-1933: Development, Structure, Standpoint, and Reich Policy Objectives (= Contributions to the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties. Vol. 30)]. Düsseldorf: Droste. pp. 59-62.
  2. ^ Bessel, Richard; Feuchtwanger, E.J. (1981). Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany. Croom Helm. p. 277. ISBN 085664921X.
  3. ^ Bessel, Richard; Feuchtwanger, E.J. (1981). Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany. Kent, U.K.: Croom Helm. p. 277. ISBN 085664921X.