The German Nationalist Party (german: Deutsche Nationalpartei, DNP, cs, Německá národní strana) was a
First Republic political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
, representing the
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
population of
Sudetenland. Its chairman and political face was
Rudolf Lodgman von Auen.
In elections, the DNP worked together with the
German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP). Both parties were outlawed in 1933. A faction of the DNP then entered the ''
Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront'' of
Konrad Henlein
Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German occupation in October 1938 he joined the Nazi Party as well as the '' SS'' and was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of the ...
.
The main party newspaper was the ''Nordböhmisches Tagblatt'' (North Bohemian Daily) published in
Děčín.
[Šebek 2000, 272.]
See also
*
Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
German Bohemians (german: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part ...
Footnotes
References
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Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia
Banned political parties
German diaspora political parties
German nationalist political parties
Political parties disestablished in 1933
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