Political parties Flashcards
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Social Democratic Party (SPD)
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Leader: Friedrich Ebert
- Represents the working class; urban industrial workers
- Strongly supports Parliamentary democracy, opposed extreme left wing ideas
- Supports social reform
- Supporter the policy of fulfilment with ToV
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Independent Socialists (USPD)
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Key Leaders: Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht
- Broke away from the SPD in 1917
- Industrial workers disillusioned SPD
- Rejected parliamentary democracy; wanted workers’ soviets
- Opposed ToV, influenced by USSR
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German Communist Party (KPD)
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Key Leader: Ernst Thalman
- Mainly working class including many ex-members of the USPD
- Hostile to the Republic, committed to the overtakes of the Republic by revolution and destruction of capitalism
- Opposed ToV, influenced by USSR
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Centre Party (ZP)
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Key Leader: Matthias Ezberger, Heinrich Bruning, France Von Papen
- Represents Germany’s Catholics
- Supports the Republic
- Supports social reform but is socially conservative i.e. against abortion, contraception, pornography
- Supported the policy of fulfilment with ToV
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German Democratic Party (DDP)
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Key Leaders: Gustav Stresemann
- Founded in 1918
- Represent business interests, middle class, and intellectuals
- Supports the republic
- Supports social reform
- Supported the policy of fulfilment with ToV
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German People’s Party (DVP)
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Key Leaders: Gustav Stresemann
- Founded by Stresemann in 1918 - a conservative and monarchist
- Initially suspicious of the Republic but strongly supports it after 1924
- Represents business, industrialists, white collar workers
- Hostile to ToV but committed to the policy of fulfilment
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German National People’s Party (DNVP)
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Key Leaders: Alfred Hugenburg
- Founded in 1918
- Hostile to the Republic, wanted the Monarchy to return
- Conservative, anti-Socialist, anti-Semitic
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National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)
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Key Leaders: Adolf Hitler
- Extreme right wing, anti-Republican, anti-Semitic and strongly nationalist
