Author: Christlich-sozialen Volksdienst
Title: Im Sinne Hindenburgs für eine besseres Preussen! Preussenwahl heiszt diesmal Schicksalswahl
Description: Berlin, Bruno Petzold Nachf. [1930]. 31x22cm, One page, two sides.. Some page browning. A crease to side edge. VG. ¶ This is an undated electoral propaganda handbill, apparently from the 1930 Prussian Reichstag election. Concludes: "Zum trenen evangelischen Dienst an Staat und Volk rufen wir die evangelischen Wähler Presussens auf. Unsere Losung lautet: Mit Gott vorwärts im Sinne Hindenburgs für ein besseres Preussen! Wählt den Chrtistlich-sozialen Volksdienst". ["The Christian Social People' s Service (Christlich- Soziale Volksdienst) was a Protestant conservative political party in the Weimar Republic. The CSVD was founded in December 19 29 through the merger of two Protestant political formations: the Christlich-soziale Reichsvereinigung (Christian Social Reich Association) and the Christlicher Volksdienst (Christian People's Service). Both had emerged from dissatisfaction amongst Protestants towards the developments within the German National People's Party (DNVP). The two groups differed on many issues, such as the role of the Republic, but were able to keep organizational unity. The CSVD portrayed itself as a Protestant version of the Catholic Centre and was mainly supported by middle-class elements. In the main they were considered to be part of the moderate tendency within the DNVP, as opposed to the radical nationalist leadership of Alfred Hugenberg. The CSVD contested the 1930 and 1932 parliamentary elections; the party CSVD formed a joint parliamentary group with the Christlich- Nationale Bauern- und Landvolkpartei in the Reichstag. After the Nazi take-over in 1933, the CSVD was dissolved..."-wikipedia].

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