Christian People's Party

The Christian People's Party (German: Christliche Volkspartei, CVP) is a conservative political party in the Rhenish Republic. Though not a Rhenish nationalist party, it operates legally only in the Rhenish Republic.
The party was effectively formed on 15 February 1921 during a split at the congress of the German Centre Party. The two active branches, based in the Rhineland and Baden-Württemberg, fractured over support for the respective governments in those regions, as well as over the direction of the party. The Rhenish branch, led chiefly by longtime Mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer, opposed the monarchism and political Catholicism of the Baden-Württemberger branch, instead advocating a republican, pan-Christian and pro-French platform. With disagreements unable to be reconciled, Adenauer successfully led the majority of the Rhenish branch into forming the Christian People's Party. The minority of the Rhenish branch that opposed the split initially maintained their section of the Centre Party, but merged with the CVP after the 1929 elections.
Category:Rhenish political parties
Category:Conservative political parties
Category:German political parties