Alsatian Progress Party
Alsatian Progress Party Elsässische Fortschrittspartei | |
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Independents of Popular Action (after 1936) | |
The Alsatian Progress Party (German: Elsässische Fortschrittspartei) was a political party in Alsace, France.
The party was founded in October 1926 by Georges Wolf and Camille Dahlet as a
Dahlet and Wolf had belonged to the Bas-Rhin branch of the Radical Party, but had quit in disagreement with its policies of centralism and anticlericalism, instead establishing the Progress Party as a party for a more decentralised and moderately secular variant of Radicalism.[1] Wolf had been the chairman of a party with the same name and similar goals in the years prior to World War I.[3]
In cultural terms the Progress Party sought to protect Alsatian culture and the status and use of the
In April 1927 a party newspaper, Das Neue Elsass ('The New Alsace'), was launched after Wolf had received financial guarantees from it. The Progress Party and Das Neue Elsass obtained a moderate degree of influence in Bas-Rhin.[1]
In 1928 Dahlet became the party leader, after Wolf resigned from the party. Wolf left politics, supposedly for personal reasons, and went back to serve as a pastor of the
Between 1928 and 1936 Camille Dahlet sat in the
References
- ^ a b c d Fischer, Christopher J. Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. pp. 190-191
- ^ Hülsen, Bernhard von. Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 165
- ^ Kurlander, Eric. The Price of Exclusion Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898 - 1933. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006. pp. 161, 294
- ^ Hülsen, Bernhard von. Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 264