Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party

The Christian- National Peasants' and Country People's Party ( CNBL ), even country people, was a German faction of the Weimar Republic.

The CNBL was founded in 1928 as one of several spin-offs of the DNVP in the wake of country people - in-distress - movement. They united in their ranks both CNBL lists selected in 1928 and later retired from the DNVP, moderate politicians of this party who had left in opposition to Alfred Hugenberg the party. The members were not yet represented by the DNVP leadership under Hugenberg of the big landowners east of the Elbe.

Programmatically, the country people was an interested party of the rural population. In contrast to the DNVP CNBL represented rather the small and medium farmers and received during the wide -ranging crisis peasant and the peasant uprisings in Schleswig- Holstein in 1930 the largest voter popularity. The relative, but one-time electoral success in 1930 was clearly also due to the secessions in the DNVP. 1928 CNBL had won with nearly 600,000 voters nine seats in the Reichstag. 1930, now renamed " Deutsches country people " (the old party name was usually added in brackets) and enriched by some dissidents from the DNVP, their votes (3.2% =) grew to 1.1 million at with which they 19 could provide Reichstag deputies. Regional them scoring significant results so they could inherit briefly in rural Protestant areas Upper and Middle Franconia radicalized the DNVP and was in ten counties (then district offices ) strongest party. She lost in 1932 but almost all voters to the NSDAP.

In July 1932, when the country people with about 91,000 votes only 0.2 % of the valid votes to be united, which meant a loss of about 90% of the electorate, the party questioned still a member of the Reichstag. In the elections of November 1932, the votes halved again: Good 46,000 votes ( = 0.1 %) were no longer sufficient for a mandate. At the general election in 1933 the party did not run.

Party leaders were Erwin Tree (1928-1930), Ernst Höfer (1930-1931) and Wolfgang von Hauenschild - Tscheidt ( 1931-1933 ). The writer Ernst von Salomon was publisher and chief editor of the party 's newspaper.

With Martin Schiele (1930-1932 Reich Minister of Food ) and - in the second cabinet - Hans Snake Schoningen (1931-1932 Reich Minister without Portfolio and Reich Commissioner for the aid to Eastern Europe ) presented the party whose 19 deputies initially played a major role in the precarious majorities in the Reichstag, one beyond its quantitative representation share in the presidential cabinets Heinrich Brüning.

The writer Hans Fallada dedicated to the romantic country-folk movement in Schleswig -Holstein in 1931, the book farmers, big shots and bombs.