The German Social Party (german: Deutschsoziale Partei, DSP) was an
antisemitic and
Völkisch political party in
Germany
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and the
Free City of Danzig during 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 ...
.
History
The party was established on 23 February 1921 by
Richard Kunze
Richard Kunze (5 February 1872 in Sagan – May 1945) was a German right-wing politician known for his anti-Semitism.
Early years
Kunze's political career began around 1914 when he was employed by the German Conservative Party along with fell ...
in order to compete with the
German Socialist Party
The German Socialist Party (German: ''Deutschsozialistische Partei'', DSP) was a short-lived German nationalist, far-right party during the early years of the Weimar Republic. Founded in 1918, its declared aim was an ideology that would combine ...
. Based in
Berlin
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, by 1925 it had a membership of around 34,000;
[Martin Schuster (2005]
Die SA in der nationalsozialistischen «Machtergreifung» in Berlin und Brandenburg 1926–1934
Technische Universität Berlin, pp18–20. 3,000 in Berlin, 5,000 in
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
, 2,400 in
Middle Silesia
Regierungsbezirk Breslau, known colloquially as Middle Silesia (german: Mittelschlesien, szl, Strzodkowy Ślōnsk, pl, Śląsk Środkowy) was a ''Regierungsbezirk,'' or government region, in the Prussian Province of Silesia and later Lower Silesi ...
, 2,300 in
Posen-West Prussia
The Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (german: Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen, pl, Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of Prussia from 1922 to 1938. Posen-West Prussia was established in 1922 as a province of the Free ...
and 5,000 in Danzig.
Germany
The party contested the
Reichstag elections in
Oppeln in 1922, a delayed part of the
1920 federal elections. It received 4.5% of the vote, failing to win a seat. In the
May 1924 elections the party received 1.1% of the national vote, winning four seats. Kunze,
Konrad Jenzen,
Hans Kurth
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and
Friedrich Stock became the party's MPs, although Kurth and Stock defected to the
National Socialist Freedom Movement
The National Socialist Freedom Movement (, NSFB) or National Socialist Freedom Party (, NSFP) was a political party in Weimar Germany created in April 1924 during the aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch. Adolf Hitler and many Nazi leaders were ...
later in the year. The
December 1924 elections saw the party ally with the Reichsbund für Aufwertung; its vote share fell to 0.5% and it lost all parliamentary representation.
In the
1928 elections the party's vote share fall to 0.2% as it remained seatless. The party was dissolved the following year, and Kunze joined 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 ...
.
Free City of Danzig
The party ran in the
1923 elections, receiving 6% of the vote and winning seven seats in the 120-seat
Volkstag
The Volkstag (English: ''People's Diet'') was the parliament of the Free City of Danzig between 1919 and 1939.
After World War I Danzig (Gdańsk) became a Free City under the protection of the League of Nations. The first elections to a const ...
. The
1927 elections saw the party's vote share fall to 1.2%, with it winning only one seat.
Die Freie Stadt Danzig: Wahlen 1919–1935
Gonschior.de
References
{{Weimar Republic political parties
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Political parties in the Free City of Danzig
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