German Conservative Party
- German Conservative Party
The German Conservative Party ("Deutsche Konservative Partei" or DKP) was a German political party of the Second Reich, founded in 1876. It was generally seen as representing the interests of the East Elbian junkers and the Evangelical Church, and had its political stronghold in the Prussian Diet, where the three-class voting system gave rural elites disproportionate power. Its policies generally embraced support for the powers of the monarchy and opposition to the introduction of electoral reform in Prussia (see Prussian three-class franchise), or true parliamentary government in Germany as a whole. In the 1890s the party, which had gradually been losing votes as Germans moved from rural areas to new industrial centers, also opportunistically embraced anti-semitism, but when this failed to halt the party's fall in the polls, this element of the program was de-emphasized.
The party was dissolved following the fall of the monarchy in 1918, and most of its supporters turned to the new German National People's Party. It had no connection to the Deutsche Rechtspartei, which used the name German Conservative Party in parts of the country.
External links
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=tk_Fa_OYjYUC&pg=PA544&dq=Deutsche+Konservative+Partei&as_brr=1#PPR1,M1 "Konservatives Handbuch" "The Conservative Handbook", published by the party in 1898]
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/kaiserreich/innenpolitik/dkp/index.html Webpage from the German Historical Museam. In German.]
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