Author: Deutsche Staatspartei
Title: An alle Handwerker und Kaufleute!
Description: Berlin, Deutsche Staatspartei, [1930]. 46x30cm, One page, two sides.. Rubberstamp to top margin, a pencilled mark to verso. Good. ¶ This is a large single-page double-side electoral propaganda flyer issued by the Deutsche Staatspartei [successor to the German Democratic Party ( Deutsche Demokratische Partei)], in the 14 September 193 0 German federal election.["The German Democratic Party was founded in November, 1918, by leaders of the former Progressive People's Party ( Fortschrittliche Volkspartei), left members of the National Liberal Party ( Nationalliberale Partei), and a new group calling themselves the Democrats.The Democrats were a more left-wing or social liberal party, whereas the German People's Party was right-wing liberal...Along with the Social Democrats and the Centre Party, the Democratic Party was most committed to maintaining a democratic, republican form of government. Its social bases were middle- class entrepreneurs, civil servants, teachers, scientists, and craftsmen. It considered itself also a devotedly national party and opposed the Treaty of Versailles, but emphasized on the other hand the need for international collaboration and the protection of ethnic minorities. The party was the one voted for by most Jews. The party was attacked by some for being a party of Jews and professors...From their 18% share of the first German federal elections under proportional representation in 1919, they dropped, for example, to 4.9% in the 1928 German federal election, and to 1.0% in the November 1932 German federal election. The party merged with the more right-leaning Young German Order to form the German State Party in 1930..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: German Political History, Weimar Germany, Electoral Politics, 1930 Election, , , , ,