Centre Party Germany - Origins of Political Catholicism - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Origins Of Political Catholicism
The Centre Party belongs to the political spectrum of Political Catholicism that, emerging in the early 19th century after the turmoil of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Between Coup D'etat And Authoritarian Democracy
Following Brüning's resignation, the Centre Party entered the opposition. Though they also opposed the National Socialists, their energi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Enabling Act
The government confronted the newly elected Reichstag with the Enabling Act that would have vested the government with legislative powers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Refounding And Post-war History
After the war, the Centre party was refounded, but it was confronted with emergence the Christian Democratic Union, a new party formed as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Soest Programme And The Founding Of The Centre Party
Growing anti-Catholic sentiment and policies, including plans for dissolving all monasteries in Prussia, made it clear that 'group' reorg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Hitler Government And New Elections
Meanwhile Papen had formed an intrigue to oust his successor. He conferred with Hugenberg and industrial magnates and bankers and after a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The End Of The Centre Party
With the passing of the Enabling Act the Centre Party had in fact acquiesced in its own demise, as it had played the part Hitler had assi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Brüning Administration
In 1930 the Grand Coalition fell apart and the Centre's Heinrich Brüning, from the moderate conservative wing of the party, was appointe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - The Soest Programme And The Founding Of The Centre Party
Growing anti-Catholic sentiment and policies, including plans for dissolving all monasteries in Prussia, made it clear that 'group' reorg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Kulturkampf
In the age of nationalism, Protestant Germans, whether Conservative like Otto von Bismarck) or Liberal, accused the Centre of Ultramontan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - Out Of The Tower!
The Kulturkampf had re-inforced the Catholic character of the Centre Party, but even during it Ludwig Windthorst had defended the party a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - In War And Revolution
The party supported the government upon the outbreak of World War I, but it also used the debates about war bonds to push for a repeal of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Party Germany: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Party Germany - In The Weimar Republic
The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form of government, ...   » Read the article