Key Parties

• DNVP


  German National Peoples Party - party of big businesses
• DDP


  German peoples party - catholic POV
• Z


  Centre Party - moderate and often in coalitions
• DPP


  Democrats -mainly socialists, supporters of the republic
• SPD


  Social Democratic Party - Left wing socialists
• USPD


  Independent Socialists - did not belive in parliaments after 1924
• KPD


  German communist party - Marxists, opposed democracy , wanted to overthrow
• NSDAP


  wanted to overthrow, anti-democratic