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Centre Party
Centre Party (Zentrumspartei) (Germany) Conceived as a party to represent the interests of the Roman Catholic minority in Germany, it gradually emerged from the Revolutions of 1848/9, though it did not function as a national party until after German unification in 1871. From the 1880s onwards, and to a more limited extent after 1918, it could count on the electoral support of the majority of Catholics, which gave it a fundamental stability and thus a pivotal role in increasingly fragmented parliaments. As the failure of the Bülow Bloc showed, it became virtually impossible to govern without the parliamentary support of the Centre in the long run. Despite its commitment to the monarchy, the party quickly accepted the Weimar Republic and became its central pillar next to the SPD. Towards the end of the Republic, under Burning's leadership, it hoped to overcome the problems of the parliamentary democracy through cooperation with conservative elites, and in 1933 it voted for the Enabling Act after accepting Hitler's guarantees to respect civil and religious liberties. The party was dissolved in 1933, and refounded in 1945, albeit with little electoral success since most of its former members joined the CDU.
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JAN PALMOWSKI. "Centre Party." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAN PALMOWSKI. "Centre Party." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-CentreParty.html JAN PALMOWSKI. "Centre Party." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-CentreParty.html |
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Centre Party
Centre Party (more correctly the National Centre Party), a political party whose formation, arising from a decision by the National Farmers' and Ratepayers' League (founded 6 Oct. 1932), was agreed on 4 January 1933. It overtook Labour to become the third largest party after the 1933 general election (9.2 per cent of the vote, eleven seats), but on 8 September 1933 voted for a merger with Cumann na nGaedheal and the National Guard (see blueshirts) to form Fine Gael. The party was conservative and pro‐treaty and appealed in particular to larger farmers. Its leader Frank MacDermot (1886–1975) and other prominent members had been associated with the Nationalist Party. Apart from MacDermot, its most important representative was James Dillon (1902–86), son of John Dillon and later a leader of Fine Gael.
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"Centre Party." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Centre Party." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-CentreParty.html "Centre Party." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-CentreParty.html |
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Centre Party
Centre Party. The party founded by the Prussian Catholics in 1870–1 to counteract the anti-Catholic policy of the Conservatives and especially of the National Liberals. It was the most effective opponent of Bismarck in the ‘Kulturkampf’. With other German parties it was suppressed in 1933. After 1945 its place was taken by the inter-denominational Christian Democratic Union.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Centre Party." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Centre Party." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-CentreParty.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Centre Party." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-CentreParty.html |
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