The Bavarian Peasants' League (, or BB) was an
agrarian political party
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in
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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, from 1893 to 1933. It has also been known in English as the Bavarian Farmers' League.
The BB represented the farming interests in the
Landtag of Bavaria
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and in the German
Reichstag.
The BB was represented in the
Bavarian Soviet Republic
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with two ministers.
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