National Democratic Party of Germany (East Germany) Totally Explained

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The National Democratic Party of Germany (German: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or NDPD) was an East German political party that acted as an organisation for former members of the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht. It shouldn't be confused with today's extreme-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). It was co-founded by Lothar Bolz, who became its general secretary, Wilhelm Adam and others.
   It was recognized by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany on 16 August 1948 and later sent 52 delegates to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, as part of the National Front. None of these ever voted against the government on any issue, similarly to other block parties which were effectively puppets of the ruling party, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Nonetheless, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became an independent agent in politics, participating in the only free Volkskammer election ever held (March 18, 1990). NDPD wasn't included to the electoral cartel of the other liberal-to-be parties in East Germany and entered the race alone. The results were a debacle, though: with 44,292 votes (0.38%) they received fewer votes than they (nominally) had members. After these results, they soon merged with the West German Free Democrats.
   Its programme demanded, among other things, the promotion of the middle class and an end to discrimination against former members of the Nazi Party. Its founding leader Lothar Bolz wasn't a former Nazi and was, in fact, a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany until he founded the new party. He had previously been a member of the Communist Party of Germany until it was suppressed by the Nazis. The NDPD was established by the communist authorities with the aim of claiming support among these ranks of society. The NDPD was organised on democratic centralist grounds and had 110,000 members in the late 1980s.
   The party was supposed to represent liberalism, like the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, but NDPD had an even more pro-SED stance and was reluctant to criticise the government even when the changes began to emerge in 1989.
   In 27 March 1990 the NDPD became part of the Bund Freier Demokraten, a short-lived organization that eventually merged in the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP).

Chairmen of the NDPD

Lothar Bolz	1948-1972
Heinrich Homann	1972-1989
Günter Hartmann	1989-1990
Wolfgang Glaeser	1990
Wolfgang Rauls	1990

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