Economic Party (Germany)
Political party in Weimar Germany
Economic Party (Germany)
The Reich Party of the German Middle Class (German: Reichspartei des deutschen Mittelstandes), known from 1920 to 1925 as the Economic Party of the German Middle Classes (German: Wirtschaftspartei des deutschen Mittelstandes), was a conservative Weimar era political party in Germany. It was commonly known as the Economic Party (German: Wirtschaftspartei, WP). Founded by baker Hermann Drewitz in 1920, the Economic Party gained support from prominent German conservatives, including jurist Johann Victor Bredt. It achieved success in regional elections before entering the national Reichstag in the May 1924 federal election. The party held its first national congress in Görlitz in 1926, embracing corporatism and reaffirming the party's direction as a middle-class special interest party. Despite being unable to join Müller's second cabinet, the party briefly participated in Brüning's first cabinet. However, opposition to Brüning's cabinet from deputy chair Otto Colosser and Prussian leader Carl...
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