Alsatian Progress Party

The Alsace Progress Party was since 1912 the national organization of the Progressive People's Party in the National Rural Alsace- Lorraine.

Prehistory

The liberals in the National Rural Alsace-Lorraine were deeply divided after the Franco-German War. The population of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine was a Catholic for almost 3/4. Therefore, Catholic politicians determined the regional policy. The denomination of the population was also the main reason for the critical attitude of the population to the Reich and its Protestant Kaiser. Part of the Liberals, as Edouard Teutsch, Ernest Lauth and Jacques Kablé represented as " protesters " autonomist positions and sought to close ranks with the Catholic politicians.

Another liberal flow to Carl August Snow Goose was the policy of the Reich against positive and positioned itself strongly anticlerical.

First liberal voting organizations

Slowly, only the wings converged. After the general election in 1890 the most liberal members of parliament joined the Group of the National Liberal Party.

The right of association adopted by France of Alsace-Lorraine saw the formation of choice clubs before only at the constituency level. From the beginning of the 1890s, such associations emerged in different places. On July 28, 1895 Daniel Blumenthal founded in Colmar Alsace -Lorraine People's Party, the first most important of the early liberal parties in the kingdom of the country. For legal reasons it was initially limited to the electoral district of Colmar. In 1892 was founded by Oskar Jerschke in Strasbourg Alsace -Lorraine Civic Association. After all the legal restrictions were dropped, this party stretched out across the country. On October 11, as 1903, on the initiative of civil society 11 liberal constituency associations for the Liberal State Party. The first chairman was Gustav Adolf Götz, deputy Georg Wolf, who should officiate as chairman from 1907. 1907 decreed the country's liberal party over 24 affiliated clubs and 9,000 members.

Alsace -Lorraine People's Party expanded from January 1904 also on the whole kingdom country.

Merger to Alsatian Progress Party

On 12 May 1912, the Alsace -Lorraine People's Party and the Liberal Party merged to form the country Alsace Progress Party. The first chairman was the Strasbourg Judicial Gustav- Adolph reef. In 1914 the party had about 56 local chapters and about 9,000 members.

The Alsace Progress Party was limited to the Alsace. In the district of Lorraine Lorraine, the Progressive Party was formed.

In 1911 elected parliament of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine, eleven deputies of the faction of the Liberal Democrats joined.

After the end of the Empire State

With the French occupation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918 ended the history of the Alsatian Progress Party.