The Independent Regional Party for Alsace–Lorraine ( German: Unabhängige Landespartei für Elsaß-Lothringen, colloquially simply referred to as Landespartei) was a political party in Alsace, France. The party was founded by a group of key supporters of the publication Die Zukunft. The Landespartei represented the radical fringe of the broader Alsatian autonomist movement. [1]
The founding meeting of the Landespartei took place in the Restaurant A l'Abattoir in Strasbourg in September 1927. Around 300 persons attended the founding meeting. The meeting was led by Paul Schall, René Hauss and Karl Roos. A programme of German linguistic demands was formulated, largely on the pattern of the Heimatbund. [2]
In the 1928 parliamentary election Landespartei obtained 11.5% of the votes in Lower Alsace (the French département of Bas-Rhin). [3]
In 1928 the Landespartei joined the Volksfront, a coalition of Alsatian political parties favouring autonomy for the region. [4]
In the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg, the party won five seats and became part of the ruling majority in the city council. [5] The party lost one of its seats in the subsequent 1935 municipal election, in which the autonomist side lost its majority. [6]
The Landespartei gradually moved closer to fascism. [4] Its new publication, Die Elsaß–Lothringische Zeitung often praised Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Moreover, splinter-groups of the party began forming uniformed combat groups styled after the SA. [4]
In April 1939 the erstwhile communist newspaper Die Neue Welt was merged into Elsass-Lothringische Zeitung. [6] In July 1939, the Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party (which had published Die Neue Welt) merged into the Landespartei. [7]
The Independent Regional Party for Alsace–Lorraine ( German: Unabhängige Landespartei für Elsaß-Lothringen, colloquially simply referred to as Landespartei) was a political party in Alsace, France. The party was founded by a group of key supporters of the publication Die Zukunft. The Landespartei represented the radical fringe of the broader Alsatian autonomist movement. [1]
The founding meeting of the Landespartei took place in the Restaurant A l'Abattoir in Strasbourg in September 1927. Around 300 persons attended the founding meeting. The meeting was led by Paul Schall, René Hauss and Karl Roos. A programme of German linguistic demands was formulated, largely on the pattern of the Heimatbund. [2]
In the 1928 parliamentary election Landespartei obtained 11.5% of the votes in Lower Alsace (the French département of Bas-Rhin). [3]
In 1928 the Landespartei joined the Volksfront, a coalition of Alsatian political parties favouring autonomy for the region. [4]
In the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg, the party won five seats and became part of the ruling majority in the city council. [5] The party lost one of its seats in the subsequent 1935 municipal election, in which the autonomist side lost its majority. [6]
The Landespartei gradually moved closer to fascism. [4] Its new publication, Die Elsaß–Lothringische Zeitung often praised Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Moreover, splinter-groups of the party began forming uniformed combat groups styled after the SA. [4]
In April 1939 the erstwhile communist newspaper Die Neue Welt was merged into Elsass-Lothringische Zeitung. [6] In July 1939, the Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party (which had published Die Neue Welt) merged into the Landespartei. [7]