The Deutscher Verband was a coalition of bourgeois German-speaking political parties that was formed in

South Tyrol it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol , settlement_type = Autonomous province , image_skyline = , image_alt ...

in 1919 after the region was annexed by Italy. It was a merger of the Catholic

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and the national liberal Deutschfreiheitliche Partei. The German-speaking

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, for their part, joined with the

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. At the

1921 Italian general election General elections were held in Italy on 15 May 1921.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1047 It was the first election in which the recently acquired regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Venezia Giulia, ...

the coalition won 90% of the vote and elected all four of the deputies that were allotted to the region. The first leader of the Deutscher Verband was Eduard Reut-Nicolussi. In 1923 he was replaced by the lawyer

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. The most important press organ of the DV, until its prohibition, was the '' Tiroler'' (after 1923, '' Der Landsmann''). The DV as banned along with the rest of the non-Fascist parties in 1926. After 1945, the political tradition of the DV was continued by the

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, which had the same leaders, and also used the

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as its election symbol.

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