Deutsche Rechtspartei
The German Conservative Party - German right-wing party (Brief description: DKP- DRP) was a political party in the British zone of occupation ( 1946-1950 ).
History
The result of the DKP -DRP is on March 22, 1946 by the merger of the German Construction Party ( DAP ) and the German Conservative Party ( DKP). The DAP saw himself as a successor party to the German Nationalist Party for Freedom ( DVFP ), in 1922 by the German National People's Party ( DNVP ) had split, while the DKP tried to regain the followers of the DNVP. The party stood in the tradition of the monarchist -oriented Prussian conservatism.
A conservative Christian party program with easy monarchist trains, with which you leaned on the party programs of the DNVP and Nazism strongly condemned, was written in 1946 by Hans and Otto Schmidt -Hannover Zehrer on Sylt. At the German Conservative Party ( ie at the regional associations of Hamburg and Schleswig -Holstein), this program was called Conservative manifesto at the German right-wing party as a manifesto of rights ( national associations of Lower Saxony and North Rhine -Westphalia).
In the summer of 1947, the creeping dissolution of the party, as a member of the Hamburg- DKP- DRP Zone Council Erwin Jacobi party with numerous friends, including the future financial Senator William Ziegeler the German Party ( DP) began moving. This trend continued when, on November 11, 1947 in Lübeck district association under Hans Ewers, who had co-founded the DAP, split off and also went to the DP. Other district associations ( Eutin, Lauenburg ) followed. In North Rhine- Westphalia, the DNVP critical group to Joachim von Ostau left too soon the party.
Prior to the federal election in 1949, there were negotiations with the DP and the National Democratic Party (NDP ) about a merger, but ultimately failed because, in particular explained the British occupying forces, a merger party of DP, NDP and DKP -DRP would not in their area obtain license. For the general election, 1949, the DKP -DRP in Lower Saxony closed then an electoral alliance with the Commonwealth of Independent German ( CCGT) under Fritz Dorls and " Franz Richter ," which had received no license. Some of them came there under the name " DRP - German right-wing party " on. The CCGT joined after the election in 1949 of the DKP -DRP also organizationally. Already on October 2, 1949 Dorls and his followers were excluded (including Otto Ernst Remer, and Gerhard Krüger), they set out on the same days later banned Socialist Reich Party (SRP ).
On January 21, 1950 after the end of the licensing constraint, the DKP -DRP joined with the Hessian NDP under Henry Leuchtgens whose Nazi wing was meanwhile also went to the SRP, the German State Party ( DRP) together.
A small group at the last chairman Hermann Klingspor led the remnants of the party who does not wish to take part in the merger itself, for a while as "National Rights". This small group approached the more conservative national federations of North Rhine -Westphalia and Lower Saxony, the Free Democratic Party ( FDP), in the most NR- members eventually entered. In Lower Saxony, the German right party still came in 1951 with little success at in the regional elections.
Election results
*) For skipping the five-percent hurdle in Lower Saxony with 8.1%
Parliaments
In the first, appointed by the British military government Landtag of Schleswig -Holstein, the German Conservative Party was 1946/47, represented by Walter Harckensee, in the second appointed parliament in 1947 then with Hans Ewers.
In addition to the five seats in the Bundestag for Adolf von Thadden, " Franz Richter ," Fritz Dorls, Herwart Miessner and Heinz Fromm Hold the DKP -DRP achieved in the elections to the Hamburg Parliament on 16 October 1949, a mandate for Carl Schlumbohm within the electoral alliance Father Urban Bund Hamburg Christian Democratic Union ( CDU), FDP and DKP -DRP. In addition, get the DKP -DRP late 1940s individual mandate gains in local elections in the British zone. Outstanding results were the almost 70 % ( 18 of 25 city council seats), which reached the DKP -DRP on November 26, 1948 in Wolfsburg under Leonhard Schlüter, Adolf von Thadden and Bernhard Gericke.
After formation of the National rights came with Alexander Hirschfeld, William beeping Brink and Hans Joachim von Rohr 1950 three of its members on an electoral coalition with the FDP in North Rhine -Westphalian Landtag.