Hanseatic People's League
Founded1926 (1926)
HeadquartersLübeck, Germany
IdeologyAnti-social democracy

The Hanseatic People's League (German: Hanseatischer Volksbund) was a Weimar era political party in Lübeck, Germany. The party was founded in 1926.[1] The party was formed by middle-class sectors that opposed the Social Democrats, in response to the takeover of the mayoral post of Lübeck by the Social Democrats.[2][3] The Hanseatic People's League proclaimed itself as a 'gathering point for all non-Marxist, i.e. non-SPD/KPD, voters'.[3] The party entered into an alliance with the German People's Party.[2]

In the 14 November 1926 Landtag election, the Hanseatic People's League became the largest party with 36 out of 80 seats in the assembly.[4] In the 1929 Landtag election, the size of the party faction in the assembly shrunk to 29 seats.[5] In total, the party had obtained 27,881 votes (35.51% of the votes cast).[6]

Following the 1932 Landtag election, the party supported the NSDAP (Nazi party) in the assembly.[7]

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