Bavarian People's Party

Bavarian People's Party Bayerische Volkspartei
President(s)	Karl Speck (1918–1929) Fritz Schäffer (1929–1933)
Founded	November 1918; 106 years ago (1918-11)
Dissolved	4 July 1933; 91 years ago (1933-07-04)
Split from	Centre Party
Succeeded by	Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Bavaria Party (not legal successors)
Headquarters	Munich, Germany
Paramilitary wing	Bayernwacht
Ideology	Political Catholicism Bavarian regionalism Christian democracy Conservatism (German)[1] Corporatism
Political position	Centre-right[2]
Religion	Roman Catholicism
European affiliation	SIPDIC (attendee)
Colours	Cyan   White
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The Bavarian People's Party (German: Bayerische Volkspartei; BVP) was a principally Catholic christian democratic political party in Bavaria during the Weimar Republic. After the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, it split away from the federal Centre Party and formed the BVP in order to pursue a conservative and regionalist stance.^[3] It dominated in state politics; all Ministers-President from 1920 onwards were from the BVP. In the national Reichstag it remained a minor player with only about three percent of total votes in all elections. The BVP disbanded shortly after the Nazi seizure of power in early 1933. It was not reformed after the war; much of its electorate was absorbed by the new centre-right regionalist Christian Social Union in Bavaria.