Hanseatic People's League

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| ideology = Anti-social democracy

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The Hanseatic People's League ({{langx|de|Hanseatischer Volksbund}}) was a Weimar era political party in Lübeck, Germany. The party was founded in 1926.Sinner, Kathrin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7sLsjZ1mq8C&pg=PA68 Schleswig-Holstein, das nördliche Bundesland: räumliche Verortung als kulturelles Identitätskonstrukt]. Münster: Waxmann, 2011. p. 68 The party was formed by middle-class sectors that opposed the Social Democrats, in response to the takeover of the mayoral post of Lübeck by the Social Democrats.Visser, Ellen de. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JetbAAAAMAAJ Frau und Krieg: weibliche Kriegsästhetik, weiblicher Rassismus und Antisemitismus : eine psychoanalytisch-tiefenhermeneutische Literaturanalyse]. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1997. p. 293 The Hanseatic People's League proclaimed itself as a 'gathering point for all non-Marxist, i.e. non-SPD/KPD, voters'. The party entered into an alliance with the German People's Party.Pulzer, Peter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T8tVo-xbKn8C&pg=PA232 Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933]. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2003. p. 232

In the 14 November 1926 Landtag election, the Hanseatic People's League became the largest party with 36 out of 80 seats in the assembly.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DkIyAAAAMAAJ Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch]. Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1929. p. 115 In the 1929 Landtag election, the size of the party faction in the assembly shrunk to 29 seats.Overesch, Manfred, and Friedrich Wilhelm Saal. [https://books.google.com/books?id=q4kiAQAAIAAJ Chronik deutscher Zeitgeschichte: Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur]. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1982. p. 435 In total, the party had obtained 27,881 votes (35.51% of the votes cast).[https://books.google.com/books?id=gLoxAAAAIAAJ Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen], Vol. 132. Gruyter., 1931. p. 424

Following the 1932 Landtag election, the party supported the NSDAP (Nazi party) in the assembly.Imberger, Elke. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cBhoAAAAMAAJ Widerstand "von unten": Widerstand und Dissens aus den Reihen der Arbeiterbewegung und der Zeugen Jehovas in Lübeck und Schleswig-Holstein 1933-1945]. Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1991. p. 58