Bavarian People's Party
Political party
The Bavarian People's Party was a Catholic political party in Bavaria during the Weimar Republic. After the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, it split away from the national-level Catholic Centre Party and formed the BVP in order to pursue a... Wikipedia
Founded: December 1918
Ceased operations: July 4, 1933
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Ideology: Political Catholicism; Bavarian regionalism; Christian democracy; Conservatism (Germany)
Paramilitary wing: Bayernwacht
Political position: Centre-right
President(s): Karl Speck (1918–1929); Fritz Schäffer (1929–1933)