The Thuringian Agricultural League (german: Thüringer Landbund) was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1933. Part of the wider

Agricultural League The Imperial Agricultural League (german: Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League was a German agrarian association during the Weimar Republic which was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe. It was allied with the German National Pe ...

, it was often allied with the

German National People's Party The German National People's Party (german: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the Nazi Party, it was the major conservative and nationalist party in Wei ...

(DNVP).

History

Established in 1920, the party won 11 seats in the Thuringian Landtag in the elections that year, receiving 21% of the vote and becoming the second-largest party in the Landtag. Elections the following year saw the party reduced to 10 seats, although it remained the second-largest party. For the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...

and

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state elections the party was part of the Thuringian Order League, an alliance with the DNVP and the

German People's Party The German People's Party (German: , or DVP) was a liberal party during the Weimar Republic that was the successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire. A right-liberal, or conservative-liberal political party, it represented politi ...

(DVP). The alliance won 48% of the vote in 1924, taking 35 of the 72 seats. Although the alliance's vote share was reduced to 34% in 1927, it remained the largest faction in the Landtag. Running alone in the 1929 state elections, the party won nine seats, making it the second-largest party after the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...

. The party contested the November 1932 federal elections as part of an alliance with the DNVP and DVP.Das Deutsche Reich: Reichstagswahl November 1932
Gonschior.de It won a single seat, whilst the DNVP won 51 and the DVP 11. In the same year it won six seats in the state elections. Together with the DNVP, the party did not contest the March 1933 elections, subsequently losing its seat in the Reichstag.Das Deutsche Reich: Reichstagswahl 1933
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References

{{Authority control Defunct regional parties in Germany Political parties established in 1920 Political parties disestablished in 1933 1920 establishments in Germany Defunct agrarian political parties 1933 disestablishments in Germany Agrarian parties in Germany