Deutsche Volksunion

The Deutsche Volksunion (literally German Popular union - DVU) is a German political party nationalist founded with Munich in 1971. Mainly regarded as a party of Extreme right-hand side (in particular by the Verfassungsschutz ), he refuses this qualifier however.

History and operation

The DVU was created in 1971 like an association before becoming a political party in 1987. Not very active apart from the election times, the party depends completely, in particular on the financial plan, of its founder the millionaire Gerhard Frey.

In 2004, the party established an alliance with NPD at the time of the regional elections in Brandebourg and Saxony. The two parties project a joint list for the federal elections of 2006.

Program and ideology

Like the whole of the German extreme-right-hand side, the DVU maintains a certain proximity with the mediums negationnists. In 1977 it financed a lecture tour of Arthur Butz and published extracts of its book “the imposture of the XXe century” in serial in the Deutsche National-Zeitung . In 1982 it is the British David Irving who was invited to give several conferences for the party.

Electoral results

The party has since its creation of the representatives at the regional Parliament of Bremen, in particular because of a characteristic of the local electoral law which makes it possible a party to be represented at the Parliament if the bar of the 5% is exceeded in one of the two cities (Bremen and Bremerhaven) and this same if the total score is in lower part of 5%.

The DVU obtained several other electoral good performances in Saxony-Anhalt (12,9% with the regional elections of 1998), with the the Schleswig-Holstein (6,3% with the regional elections of 1992) and with the Brandebourg (5,3% in 1999 and 6,1% in 2004).

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