German Fatherland Party

German Fatherland Party
Deutsche Vaterlandspartei
AbbreviationDVLP
ChairmanAlfred von Tirpitz[1]
Deputy ChairmanWolfgang Kapp[2]
Founded2 September 1917;[a]
Königsberg, East Prussia
Dissolved10 December 1918
Merged intoDNVP (de facto)[4][5]
Think tankAlldeutscher Verband
Membership1,250,000 (July 1918 est.)[6]
Ideology
Political positionFar-right
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The German Fatherland Party (German: Deutsche Vaterlandspartei, abbreviated as DVLP[10]) was a short-lived far-right[11] political party active in the German Empire during the last phase of World War I. It rejected the Reichstag Peace Resolution of July 1917, which called for a negotiated peace without annexations.[12] The Fatherland Party is considered the first attempt at reconciliation and cooperation between the traditional right, characteristic of the Wilhelmine Period, and militant nationalists of the extreme right who would become popular during the interwar period.[13][14][15][16]

  1. ^ Kelly, Patrick (2011). Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy pp. 410–421. ISBN 978-0253355935.
  2. ^ Welch, David (2000). Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918: The Sins of Omission p. 200. ISBN 978-0485004076.
  3. ^ Dempster 2006, p. 19.
  4. ^ Hadry, 2007. Quote: "Party leaders and assets were transferred to the German National People's Party."
  5. ^ Heinrich, August (2008). Germany: The Long Road West, 1789–1933 p. 352. ISBN 978-0199265978.
  6. ^ Dempster 2006, p. 1.
  7. ^ Dempster 2006, pp. 35–36.
  8. ^ Hofmeister, Björn (2016). German Fatherland Party, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson. Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin 2016-10-26. doi:10.15463/ie1418.10992.
  9. ^ Dempster 2006, pp. 35, 44.
  10. ^ Wette, Wolfram (2002). The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality p. 41. ISBN 978-0-674-02577-6.
  11. ^ Dassen, 2013, pp. 161–187.
  12. ^ Kruse, Wolfgang (6 May 2013). "Burgfrieden und Innenpolitik: Militärdiktatur und nationalistische Mobilisierung" [Burgfrieden and Domestic Policy: Military Dictatorship and Nationalist Mobilisation]. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  13. ^ (2003). German history of society. Volume 4: From the beginning of the First World War to the founding of the two German states 1914–1949, p. 108; Historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler described the DVLP as quote, "[...] the first right-wing radical proto-fascist mass party."
  14. ^ Peck, Abraham (1978). Radicals and reactionaries: The Crisis of Conservatism in Wilhelmine Germany pp. 203–221. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00021105.
  15. ^ Bernd-Jürgen Wendt, Peter-Christian Witt (1983). German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Century pp. 199–230.
  16. ^ Hagenlücke, Heinz (1997). Deutsche Vaterlandspartei: Die nationale Rechte am Ende des Kaiserreiches. German Studies Review. pp. 18, 402. ISBN 978-3770051977.


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