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German Conservative Party
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German Conservative Party Deutschkonservative Partei | |
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| Founded | 7 June 1876 |
| Dissolved | 9 November 1918 (de facto), 1933 (de jure) |
| Preceded by | Prussian Conservative Party |
| Merged into | German National People's Party |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Newspaper | Neue Preußische Zeitung |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colors | Blue |
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The German Conservative Party (German: Deutschkonservative Partei, DkP) was a right-wing political party of the German Empire founded in 1876. It largely represented the wealthy landowning German nobility and the Prussian Junker class.
The party was a response to German unification, universal and equal franchise in national elections and rapid industrialization. It changed from a diffuse party of broad ideology into an interest party in Bismarckian Germany. In the early 1870s, Otto von Bismarck formed his majority with the base in the National Liberal Party which emphasized free trade and anti-Catholicism. Bismarck broke with them in the late 1870s, by which time the German Conservative Party and the Free Conservative Party had brought together the landed Junkers in the East and the rapidly growing industrial leadership in the major cities. They now became the main base of Bismarck's support and successive Chancellors down to 1918.[1]
According to Robert M. Berdahl, this redirection illustrated "the slow and painful process by which the landed aristocracy adjusted to its new position in the capitalist 'class' system that had come to replace the precapitalist 'Estate' structure of Prussian society".[2]
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