All-German People's Party

All-German People's Party

Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei
All-German People's Party Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei
	1953 election poster by the party, pushing their anti-re-armament message
Leader	Gustav Heinemann
Founded	1952
Dissolved	1957
Split from	Christian Democratic Union and Centre Party
Merged into	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Ideology	Centrism; Christian democracy; Christian left; Pacifism; Neutralism
Political position	Centre to centre-left
	Politics of Germany; Political parties; Elections;

The All-German People's Party (German: Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei, GVP) was a minor political party in West Germany active between 1952 and 1957.^[3] It was a Christian, pacifist, centre-left^[2] party that opposed the re-armament of West Germany because it believed that the remilitarisation and NATO integration would make German reunification impossible, deepen the division of Europe and pose a danger to peace.

Most members were dissidents from the Christian Democratic Union or German Centre Party who disagreed with the foreign and intra-German policy of Konrad Adenauer's government. The party failed to win broader public support, only gaining 1.2% in the federal election. The party dissolved and many members joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD), with a number of former GVP activists rising to high-ranking positions, including two Presidents of Germany, Gustav Heinemann and Johannes Rau.

^ ^a ^b Stöver, Bernd (2011). Der Kalte Krieg: Geschichte eines radikalen Zeitalters, 1947 - 1991. C. H. Beck. p. 220.
^ ^a ^b Sauer, Thomas (1999). Westorientierung im deutschen Protestantismus?. Oldenbourg. p. 151, note 109.
^ Dilling, Matthias (2022). "Denominational Conflicts and Party Breakthrough: The Negative Case of the All-German People's Party". Social Science History. 46 (3): 505–529. doi:10.1017/ssh.2022.1. ISSN 0145-5532. S2CID 247983650.

[Stoever11_220-1] Stöver, Bernd (2011). Der Kalte Krieg: Geschichte eines radikalen Zeitalters, 1947 - 1991. C. H. Beck. p. 220.

[Sauer99_151-2] Sauer, Thomas (1999). Westorientierung im deutschen Protestantismus?. Oldenbourg. p. 151, note 109.

[3] Dilling, Matthias (2022). "Denominational Conflicts and Party Breakthrough: The Negative Case of the All-German People's Party". Social Science History. 46 (3): 505–529. doi:10.1017/ssh.2022.1. ISSN 0145-5532. S2CID 247983650.

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