The Hanseatic People's League (german: Hanseatischer Volksbund) was a

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Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

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. The party was founded in 1926. The party was formed by middle-class sectors that opposed the

Social Democrats Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote so ...

, in response to the takeover of the mayoral post of Lübeck by the Social Democrats.Visser, Ellen de.
Frau und Krieg: weibliche Kriegsästhetik, weiblicher Rassismus und Antisemitismus : eine psychoanalytisch-tiefenhermeneutische Literaturanalyse
'. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1997. p. 293 The Hanseatic People's League proclaimed itself as a 'gathering point for all non-Marxist, i.e. non-SPD/

KPD The Communist Party of Germany (german: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, , KPD ) was a major political party in the Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West German ...

, voters'. The party entered into an alliance with the

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.Pulzer, Peter.
Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933
'. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003. p. 232 In the 14 November 1926

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election, the Hanseatic People's League became the largest party with 36 out of 80 seats in the assembly. In the 1929 Landtag election, the size of the party faction in the assembly shrunk to 29 seats. In total, the party had obtained 27,881 votes (35.51% of the votes cast). Following the 1932 Landtag election, the party supported the

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(Nazi party) in the assembly.Imberger, Elke.
Widerstand "von unten": Widerstand und Dissens aus den Reihen der Arbeiterbewegung und der Zeugen Jehovas in Lübeck und Schleswig-Holstein 1933-1945
'. Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1991. p. 58

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{{reflist Defunct regional parties in Germany Political parties in the Weimar Republic History of Lübeck 1926 establishments in Germany Political parties established in 1926