Christian Social People's Service

The Christian Social Services ( CSVD, 1929-1933 ) was a Protestant conservative party in the Weimar Republic.

Formation

Large parts of the former Christian Social party, Adolf Stoecker joined under the leadership of Reinhard Mumm of the new German National People's Party ( DNVP ). However, felt more and more in the Christian Social Party unwell, some came out. At the local level, these forces are accumulated in various organizations that participated to some extent in local elections, as in 1924, educated in Nuremberg Christian People's Service or the Social Christian ethos communities that were primarily based on free churches such as the Moravian Church in South West Germany. The Christian People's service spread and adopted in 1928 in Württemberg at the state election held, in which he won three seats with 43,440 votes. He then gained new members in the Rhineland, in East Westphalia and the winning country and Wittgenstein.

Tremendous boost received the new movement, as with Alfred Hugenberg, the DNVP was a party leader who struck a republic unconditionally and anti-democratic course and soon sought a partnership with the NSDAP. In addition, the major media entrepreneur struck clearly on the side of capital, and spoke out against workers and trade union interests. The DNVP split then. Known representatives of the workers wing founded 1928, the Christian Social Reich Association, including members of the Reichstag as Gustav Hülser, Walther Lambach, leader of the German National Retail Clerks Association (DHV ) is a member- strong employees union, or Emil Hartwig.

In the further consequence emerged from numerous DNVP Reichstag deputy from the party, including well-known Christian Social as Reinhard Mumm, Franz Gustav Behrens or Hülser. The Christian People's Service and the Christian Social Reich Association merged the end of 1928 and formed the new party the Christian Social People's Service. Because of crossings former DNVP deputy she was once represented in the Reichstag.

The Christian Social Services from 1930

In the general election of 1930 which emphasizes Protestant party won most number of votes in regions that were characterized by a strong pietistic or free church tradition, as in rural parts of East Prussia, in East Westphalia, Württemberg, Baden, Hesse -Nassau, the winning country and Wittgenstein, in the county of Bentheim and the western East Frisia and around Dusseldorf. She was represented by 14 deputies in the Reichstag, which supported the center - Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in general. The CSVD was therefore frequently attacked by the Nazis and German nationalists as an appendage of the center and violently attacked because they befände in supporting Bruning in the company of the SPD, which took effect in stressed evangelical circles. So wore the CSVD the initiated by the right-wing parties stressed petition with the overthrow of the Prussian government in 1931. With the growing success of the Nazi Party, the party moved to the right, the democratic forces in it came on the defensive. In the Reichstag elections in July and November 1932, halved the proportion of voters CSVD. Many voters switched to the NSDAP. Prominent party leaders, including key leaders of the " Christian- social attitude Communities " as the Protestant pastor Hermann Teutsch, former CSVD - member of the Reichstag, came to the NSDAP and served to agitate for the Nazis among the Protestant population. On March 22, 1932, the Empire Officer Wilhelm Simpfendörfer and the critic of the Hugenberg course Gustav Hülser had a conversation with Hitler. They assured him that they had always used for keeping the Nazis in the way the government open. Simpfendörfer explained that the CSVD see more opportunities for cooperation with the NSDAP than with the DNVP.

The end of the Christian Social People's Service

At the general election of 1933 CSVD closed in February with the German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Peasants' Party (DBP ) under the name " Christian- National Block" an election agreement, she finally secured four seats in the Reichstag. But on March 23, 1933 declared Simpfendörfer the support of CSVD for the domestic and foreign policy objectives of the Cabinet Hitler NSDAP, DNVP and Stahlhelm. The deputies of the NSDAP joined as trainees, the party broke up. However, Several members went on a collision course with the new government. In exceptional cases, they turned actively against the Nazi regime, as the pastor Albert Schmidt, who died following his arrest in November 1945.

After 1945, most CSVD members were operating in the CDU or CSU, said Paul Bausch and Gustav Heinemann ( party outlet 1952), others such as Friedrich Justus Heinrich Middendorff were active in the peace movement or in the mainly Christian neutralist All-German People's Party.

Party chairman

Reichstag election results

  • Reichstag election 1930-868807 votes - 14 seats
  • Reichstag election Juli 1932-364573 votes - 4 seats (some electoral alliance with the Nazi Party for People's Rights and appreciation )
  • Reichstag November election 1932-403666 votes - 5 seats
  • Reichstag election März 1933-362476 votes - 4 mandates ( under the Christian- National Bloc )

Prominent party members

  • Ernst Bach
  • Paul Bausch
  • Franz Behrens
  • Frederik J. Forell
  • Gustav Heinemann
  • Gustav Hülser
  • Walther Lambach
  • Reinhard Mumm
  • Peter Petersen ( educator )
  • Paul Schmidt ( Baptist pastor )
  • Wilhelm Simpfendörfer
  • Hermann Strathmann
Conservatism Christian Social Party (Germany) Mandate (politics) German National Association of Commercial Employees Reichstag (Weimar Republic) German federal election, 1930 Hesse-Nassau Centre Party (Germany) German People's Party German Farmers' Party All-German People's Party German federal election, July 1932 German federal election, November 1932 Integrated Authority File
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