German Conservative Party
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The German Conservative Party 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.
Members of the German Conservative Party's Reichstag Caucus (left to right): Rudolph Wichmann, Otto von Seydewitz, Helmuth von Moltke, Count Konrad von Kleist-Schmenzin, Otto von Helldorff-Bedra and Karl Gustav Ackermann
Free Conservative Party
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The Free Conservative Party was a liberal-conservative political party in Prussia and the German Empire which ran as the German Reich Party in the federal elections to the Reichstag beginning in 1871.
German Conservative Party
…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…
Wilhelm von Kardorff, one of the founders of the Free Conservative Party