Adolf Bauser (11 December 1880 – 16 November 1948) was a German teacher, member of the Reichstag for the

Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation The Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation (german: Reichspartei für Volksrecht und Aufwertung), also known as the People's Justice Party (''Volksrechtpartei'', VRP), was a political party active in the Weimar Republic in Germany. History The ...

and delegate for the Christian Democratic Union in the

Landtag A Landtag (State Diet) is generally the legislative assembly or parliament of a federated state or other subnational self-governing entity in German-speaking nations. It is usually a unicameral assembly exercising legislative competence in non ...

Württemberg-Baden Württemberg-Baden was a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the United States occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. ...

. Bauser came to politics in the German Empire as a member of the Progressive People's Party and following the establishment of the

Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is ...

he switched to the

German Democratic Party The German Democratic Party (, or DDP) was a center-left liberal party in the Weimar Republic. Along with the German People's Party (, or DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933. It was formed in 1918 from the ...

. However, as a response to the

inflation in the Weimar Republic Hyperinflation affected the German Papiermark, the currency of the Weimar Republic, between 1921 and 1923, primarily in 1923. It caused considerable internal political instability in the country, the occupation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium, ...

Bauser, in 1923, became a founder member of the ''Sparerbundes für das Deutsche Reich'', a pressure group for professionals hit by inflation. In August 1926 this group established the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation (commonly known as VRP from its other name Volksrechtpartei) and Bauer was appointed party chairman. The group sought greater influence for its members in order to force revaluation. On 10 June 1929 Bauser was appointed to the Landtag des freien Volksstaats Württemberg following a judgement of court, remaining a member until April 1932. At the Reichstag election in July 1932 he became the only VRP member to be elected to the national parliament after the party concluded a pact with the

Christian Social People's Service The Christian Social People's Service (german: Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst, abbreviated CSVD) was a Protestant conservative political party in the Weimar Republic. The party's genesis lay in Adolf Stockers Christian Social party, which joi ...

. After losing his seat that November Bauser spent the remainder of the Weimar period in an unsuccessful attempt at building a united party of the

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. Little is known of Bauser's life under the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

Bei Martin Schumacher (ed.): ''M.d.R. Die Reichstagsabgeordneten der Weimarer Republik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Politische Verfolgung, Emigration und Ausbürgerung 1933−1945.'' Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, , p. 107 although he was dismissed from his teaching post in 1939.Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
Bestand Q3 /43 Zur Geschichte des Zentralverbands der Fliegergeschädigten, Evakuierten und Währungsgeschädigten.
/ref> Following the overthrow of the Nazis Bauser became director of the ''Pädagogischen Instituts'' in Stuttgart in 1945. He returned to politics in 1947 as a leading figure in the ''Zentralverbands der Fliegergeschädigten, Evakuierten und Währungsgeschädigten'' (ZVF) and was involved in publishing the ZVF magazine ''Selbsthilfe''. He represented the CDU in the Landtag of Württemberg-Baden from its formation in 1946 until his death in 1948.

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