The Christian People's Party (german: Christliche Volkspartei, CVP) was a political party in

Weimar Germany 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 republic, constitutional federal republic for the first time in ...

History

The party contested the 1920 federal elections in an alliance with the

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known as the Christian Federalist Imperial Election List (german: Christlich-föderalistische Reichswahlliste). The CVP gained just 0.25% of the national vote, but won a single seat. They did not contest any further elections. A Catholic party, it was mainly based in the

Rhineland The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

area of western Germany.

Richard Bessel Richard Bessel is professor of twentieth century history at the University of York and a member of the editorial boards of ''German History'' and ''History Today''. He is a specialist in the social and political history of modern Germany, the a ...

& E.J. Feuchtwanger, ''Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany'', Croom Helm, 1981, , p. 273

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