German Democratic Party
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The German Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist or centre-left. Along with the right-liberal German People's Party, it represented political liber
Friedrich Naumann c. 1911
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
An election poster from the German Democratic Party (DDP) used during the 1928 German federal election, illustrated by Theo Matejko: "Clean up the Reich! Vote German Democrats!"
Otto Geßler
Hjalmar Schacht
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Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during
German Democratic Party
…People's Party and critical of a suggested merger of the two parties, a group including Theodor Vogelstein, Richard Witting, Richard Frankfurter, Hjalmar Schacht, and Kurt von Kleefeld, made plans to form a new political party. The group opposed the authoritarianism of Imperial Germany whilst supporting a…
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht (left) and Albert Vögler in Paris, where they negotiated the Young Plan, 11 February 1929
Schacht in 1931
Schacht (left) at a meeting in the Reichsbank transfer commission, 1934