The Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party (, or CNBL) was an agrarian

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Weimar Germany The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...

. It developed from the

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

(DNVP) in 1928. The group had emerged following the 1928 election at which the DNVP suffered losses. In response the party appointed the radical right

Alfred Hugenberg Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg (19 June 1865 – 12 March 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician. An important figure in nationalist politics in Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century, ...

as leader and he adopted a policy of opposition to the Weimar Republic, the party having previously been critical of, but largely engaged with, the system. Hugenberg's ideas gained support among the large landowners but many of the smaller owners who were associated with the DNVP were alarmed by the shift and, under the direction of Karl Hepp, leader of the Landbund in Hessen-Nassau, they moved to form their own party. The new group was based in

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and

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. It has been characterised as part of a wider attempt by the middle classes to assert their economic interests in the mid to late 1920s by founding their own, fairly narrowly based, parties, including the

German Farmers' Party The German Farmers' Party (, or DBP) or German Peasants' Party was a German agrarian political party during the Weimar Republic, existing from 1928-33. It has been characterised as part of a wider attempt by the middle classes to assert their ec ...

and in urban areas the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation and Reich Party of the German Middle Class. The party contested the

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in coalition with the

German-Hanoverian Party The German-Hanoverian Party (, DHP), also known as the Guelph Party (), was an agrarian, federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. It represented the interests of Hanoverian separatists and regionalists that sought ...

to win nine seats individually and 13 for the coalition. It increased its share in

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to a party high of 19 seats as part of a ''Deutsches Landvolk'' group that captured 26 seats and included the Hanoverians, the Conservative People's Party and a smaller group using the name ''Konservative Volkspartei und Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei''. Under the name ''Deutsches Landvolk'' it was part of the

's bloc for the July 1932 election and managed to gain only one seat. They were eliminated from the Reichstag at the November 1932 election.Das Deutsche Reich Reichstagswahl November 1932
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