Popular Republican Union

The Union populaire républicaine ( German: Alsatian People's Party) (UPR ) was the largest party in the interwar period in Alsace and de facto successor party to the Alsace- Lorraine Centre Party. Sister party in Lorraine was the Union républicaine lorraine (URL). The party was aligned Christian Democrat and sat down in secular France for the interests of the churches.

The party was founded in 1919 after the end of the Imperial Lands Alsace-Lorraine and the French occupation. After the so-called " conspiracy " process of Colmar (the four convicts were pardoned after two months ) was the parteiübergeifende alliance "Home Legal popular front ", which may establish the rights of the German-speaking majority of Alsace, whose representatives in 1929 elected to Colmar and Strasbourg mayor were. Due to the sympathy of the Autonomist Party country with the NSDAP in 1933, the Alliance broke through the exit of the UPR.

With the beginning of World War I, some politicians of the UPR were interned (see The Nanziger ). In 1946 she went on in the Christian Democratic Mouvement populaire républicain.

Known MPs

  • Joseph Bilger
  • Joseph Emile Bourgeois
  • Joseph bromine
  • Édouard Fuchs
  • Sébastien Gegauff
  • Joseph Gullung
  • Charles Hartmann
  • Henri Meck
  • Alfred Oberkirch
  • Pierre Pflimlin
  • Eugène Ricklin
  • Joseph Rossé
  • Thomas Seltz
  • Joseph Sigrist
  • Marcel Stürmel
  • Michel Walter
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