Word: staatspartei
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...recognized by the Soviet military administration, had equal rights in the campaign. In practice the dice were loaded heavily in favor of the Socialist Unity Party. In private conversations with Germans, Russian officers recently have gone so far as to refer to the Socialist Unity Party as the "Staatspartei" (state party). After all, it is the outgrowth of last Easter's Russian-backed merger of Communists and Social Democrats in the Russian zone and Berlin...
...toward consolidating Germany's 3O-odd political factions into fewer, larger, more practical groups. The Conservative People's Party and the Economic party issued a joint election platform. Reactionaries in these groups, however, promptly formed another organization known as the Constitutional party, sought to restrain the three-weeks-old Staatspartei (Constitutional party) from using their name...
...increasingly vigorous as general election day (Sept. 14) draws nearer. Divided against themselves, German votes are now being sought by seven major parties, none of which can hope for a landslide in its direction. The parties: Social Democrats, Nationalists, Catholic Centrists, Communists, German People's Party, the new Staatspartei, and the up-and-coming National Socialist Workers party. Seeking the element which precipitated last week's turbulence, observers unanimously pointed to the Fascists and their demagog-oratorical, Jew-baiting, terrorist Adolf Hitler...
...counteract this tendency, to preserve the Republic from a dictatorship, that the new party has been formed. In its first proclamation it called itself the Staatspartei (Constitutional Party). Claiming the late great Gustav Stresemann as its patron saint, and two of Stresemann's biographers on the list of its organizers,* the Staatspartei "stands on the ground of the Federal Constitution and honors the national flag;" i.e. it is opposed to the restoration of the black, white, red, tricolor of Imperial Germany. All this is understandable and praiseworthy. What is surprising is the man who was chosen leader...
Last week the reformed Young German Order appeared to be the backbone of the Staatspartei. Also in the fold was the old Democratic Party, which has been losing deputies at every election since 1919 until its formal dissolution last week. Friedrich Baltrusch and Ernst Lemeer, Protestant Trade Unions leaders, were listed among the new party's leaders. Observers saw in this an attempt to bring into the Staatspartei the Protestant workers of Germany as the German Centrist party absorbed German Catholic workmen...
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