Schleswig-Holstein Farmers and Farmworkers Democracy (German: ''Schleswig-Holsteinische Bauern- und Landarbeiterdemokratie'') (later known as the Schleswig-Holstein Regional Party (German: ''Schleswig-Holsteinische Landespartei'')) was a regional agrarian

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 political ideology ...

based in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

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 al ...

. The party won a single seat in the 1919 federal election and one in the Free State of Prussia the same year. A moderate party that leaned towards

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

, the SHBLD co-operated with the German People's Party in the 1919 elections. However Hinrich Lohse, who was appointed General Secretary of the party in 1920, went on to serve as a

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...

official.Ernst Klee, ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. 2. Auflage, Frankfurt a.M. 2007, , p. 378

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