The German Party was a minor conservative party active in Germany between 1961 and 1980. It was founded by former members of the conservative German Party founded in 1947 who were dissatisfied with its failure to gain electoral representation after their merger with the refugees' party the

All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (german: Gesamtdeutscher Block/Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten or GB/BHE) was a right-wing political party in West Germany, which acted as an advocacy group of the Germa ...

. The newly formed German Party contested the state election of Lower Saxony in 1963. However, with 2.7 per cent of the vote (as compared to the "old" party's 12.3 per cent in 1959) it failed to win representation.Gerhard A. Ritter and Merith Niehuss, ''Wahlen in Deutschland 1946-1991. Ein Handbuch''. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1991, p. 163. Cut off from the conservative mainstream a number of German Party's functionaries participated in the foundation of the far-right National Democratic Party. Party activist

Friedrich Thielen Friedrich-Georg "Fritz" Thielen (25 September 1916 – 11 June 1993) was a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the German Party, the Gesamtdeutsche Partei and the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). Thielen ...

was chosen as the leader of the new party but was ousted in 1967 by

Adolf von Thadden Adolf von Thadden (7 July 1921 – 16 July 1996) was a German far-right politician. Born into a leading Pomeranian landowning family, he was the half-brother of Elisabeth von Thadden, a prominent critic of the Nazis who was executed by the Nazi g ...

. Thielen left, as he felt von Thadden was too sympathetic to

Nazism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

, and tried to re-found the German Party. However the new incarnation failed to become even a local force and ceased to operate as a political party in 1980.

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* André Freudenberg: ''Freiheitlich-konservative Kleinparteien im wiedervereinigten Deutschland: Bund Freier Bürger, Deutsche Partei, Deutsche Soziale Union, Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive''. Leipzig: Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2009, . Conservative parties in Germany Defunct political parties in Germany Political parties established in 1961 Political parties disestablished in 1980 1961 establishments in West Germany {{Germany-party-stub