The German National People's Party was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the Nazi Party, it was the major nationalist par
A DNVP poster from 1920 showing a Teutonic knight being attacked by Poles and socialists as the caption reads "Save the East"
Clemens von Delbrück served as the DNVP's chief spokesman during the National Assembly that wrote the constitution of 1919.
Karl Helfferich, leader of the DNVP's Reichstag delegation 1919–1924, was well known for his abusive and abrasive style of politics which led to Chancellor Joseph Wirth to accuse him in 1922 on the floor of the Reichstag of moral responsibility for the assassination of Walther Rathenau.
Reinhold Wulle (left) was one of the leaders of the DNVP's völkisch wing in the early 1920s who walked out of the party in 1922.
Otto Braun was a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic. From 1920 to 1932, with only two brief interruptions, Braun was Minister President of the Free State o
Braun's official Landtag portrait, 1932
Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), where Braun was born and began his political career
The Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin. Braun was a member from 1913 to 1933.
Braun's official National Assembly portrait, 1919