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5 unusual facts about Conservatism in Germany


German Fatherland Party

Backed by the Pan-German League, the party was founded close to the end of 1917 and represented conservative, nationalist, antisemitic and völkisch political circles, united in their opposition against the Reichstag Peace Resolution of July 19.

German Progress Party

In the 1850s these "Old Liberals" gathered in a parliamentary group around Georg von Vincke, an originally conservative Prussian official and landowner (Junker).

German Revolution of 1918–19

Other noteworthy parties in the Reichstag of 1912 were the Catholic Centre Party (91), the Conservatives (57), the National Liberals (45) and Progressive People's Party (42), the Poles (18) and the Alsatians (9).

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In addition she is considered to be a protagonist of conservative values with a green lifestyle.

Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg

Schwarzenberg formed a new government with conservative politicians like Interior Minister Count Franz von Stadion but also liberal allies like Baron Alexander von Bach, Karl Ludwig von Bruck and Anton von Schmerling as well as the Bohemian federalist Education Minister Count Leopold von Thun und Hohenstein.



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