German-Hanoverian Party
The German - Hanoverian Party ( DHP) was a conservative federalist party in Prussia and the German Empire.
Prussia and the Empire
The party was founded in 1869 in protest against the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia and the confiscation of the assets of Guelph ( Guelph Fund). They aimed at the restoration of the Welf dynasty and was therefore called " the Guelph party." The conservative- dominated Lutheran party was anti-Prussian and strongly anchored mainly in East Hanover. Among the leaders were numerous nobles. In the Reichstag of the German Empire, the deputies of the party joined as trainees regularly to the fraction of the center. Your Reichstag Louis Bruel, a close friend of the center leader Ludwig Windthorst was in 1892 a major role in the negotiations on the return of the Guelph Fund. Party leaders ( = Chairman of the Executive Board of the Hanoverian Association choice, as they call themselves ) was from 1890 to 1898 Georg von der Decken ( 1836-1898 ), MdR 1890-1898.
Weimar Republic
After 1918, the DHP sat down for an independent of Prussia Hanover as a constituent state of the German Empire. One for 1924 conducted preliminary vote failed, including through strong government pressure on officials, press, etc. Then began a decline of the party, the Protestant Guelph went to Osthannover to the NSDAP, the Catholic Guelph in the Osnabrück area and the Emsland partly as Member of Parliament William Borgmann from the Emsland Lorup, to the center. In 1933, she broke up, in order to forestall the ban by the Nazis.
Federal Republic of Germany
After 1945 came the " Lower Saxony State Party " (1947 renamed the " German Party"), the successor to the DHP. In Lower Saxony, strongly anchored, they presented here with its chairman Heinrich Hellwege 1955 to 1959 the Prime Minister. At the federal level, they formed a coalition with the CDU and was represented by ministers in the federal government.
1953 founded some DP dissidents a new DHP, but was unsuccessful. She joined again in 1962 the "residual DP " indicates a wing did not participate in the GDP. The only president of this party was Hans Wilhelm Griemsmann. This DHP participated in the Lower Saxony state parliament elections in 1955 and received 0.3 % of the valid votes. In 1957 she exhibited together with the Centre, the Lower Saxony state list of the Federal Union ( FU). Your Member Hermann Predöhl had been elected under the electoral alliance in the Federal Executive of the FU.
German - Hanoverian folk calendar
From 1898 to 1933, the party was editor of the German Hanoverian folk calendar.