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Encyclopedia > German Party

The German Party (Deutsche Partei) is a minor German political party. Currently it is represented only at the local level in Germany. However, from 1949 to 1961 it was part of the ruling coalition in the Bundestag (federal parliament). 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ...


History

It originated in the Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei (German-Hanoverian Party) which was formed in 1866 after the annexation of Hanover by Prussia to agitate against the annexation. It consistently had representation in the parliament of Prussia and sometimes the Reichstag until the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933. After World War II it reformed as the German Party, a liberal, patriotic, and christian democratic party. It was part of the coalition led by Konrad Adenauer until 1961, when nine of its members defected to the CDU, and it failed to receive any seats in the 1961 federal election. It continues as a fairly minor party in Germany. 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of... The Reichstag is both an institutional assembly and a specific building. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (Pronounced Vy-mahr, and in German it is known as the Weimarer Republik). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Konrad Adenauer - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Christian Democratic Union (CDU - Christlich-Demokratische Union) is a political party in Germany, founded after World War II by Konrad Adenauer, among others. ... The German federal election, 1961, was conducted on September 17, 1961, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of Germany. ...


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