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POLITICAL PARTY DETAILS
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AbbreviationDZP
Websitehttps://zentrumspartei.de/
CountryGermany
Established1870-12-13
Disbanded0000-00-00
Contributor411 Name Removed
Last EditedBojicat - August 30, 2022 12:40pm
DescriptionThe oldest party in Germany and prominent in the late 19th/early 20th century formation of a modern Germany, from 1871 to the end of the Weimar Republic. Party identified itself with political Catholicism and immediately upon its launching went to battle against Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's effort to subject the Roman Catholic church to state controls (the 'Kulturkampf'). Party was also a major support for the Reich Chancellors during the Weimar period until the party was banned by Hitler in 1933. Party's revival in 1945 did little to avail itself of representation in the new nation's legislative bodies until January 2022, when it picked up one seat in the 736-seat Reichstag. Party strives to return to its ci-devant glory and has begun to seek representative success in state parliaments, starting with the North Rhine-Westphalia Landtag election in May 2022. Party chairman is Christian Otte [Deutsche Zentrumspartei or Zentrum (DZP or Z)].

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MOST RECENT RACES
10/09/2022 Lower Saxony State Parliament - Popular Vote German Centre Party Lost 0.05% (-33.28%)
05/15/2022 North Rhine-Westphalia Landtag - Popular Vote German Centre Party Lost 0.06% (-35.59%)
09/24/2017 DEU Bundestag - Popular Vote German Centre Party Lost 0.14% (-26.62%)
09/24/2017 DEU Bundestag - Baden-Württemberg German Centre Party Lost 0.17% (-34.23%)
09/24/2017 DEU Bundestag - Berlin German Centre Party Lost 0.23% (-22.52%)
09/24/2017 DEU Bundestag - Bayern German Centre Party Lost 0.17% (-38.64%)
06/13/2004 DEU European Parliament - Popular Vote German Centre Party Lost 0.10% (-36.40%)
12/09/1955 Stalin Peace Prize Joseph Wirth Won 16.67% (+0.00%)
09/06/1953 DEU Chancellor Johannes Brockmann Lost 0.59% (-56.58%)
09/12/1949 DEU President Rudolf Amelunxen Lost 3.91% (-50.33%)
08/14/1949 Bundestag Election German Centre Party Lost 3.04% (-28.49%)
03/05/1933 DEU Reichstag - Party Control German Centre Party Lost 11.44% (-33.08%)
10/09/1931 Germany Foreign Minister Heinrich Brüning Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
06/20/1930 German Finance Minister - Acting Heinrich Brüning Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
03/30/1930 German Reichskanzler Heinrich Brüning Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
03/30/1930 Germany Interior Minister Joseph Wirth Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
04/13/1929 German Justice Minister Theodor von Guérard Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
01/29/1927 German Finance Minister Heinrich Köhler Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
05/17/1926 German Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
05/16/1926 German Justice Minister Johannes Bell Won 100.00% (+100.00%)