The Zipser German Party () was a party of the
First Czechoslovak Republic
The First Czechoslovak Republic, often colloquially referred to as the First Republic, was the first Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1938, a union of ethnic Czechs and Slovaks. The country was commonly called Czechosl ...
founded at
Kežmarok on 20–22 March 1920 aiming for the representation of the
Zipser Germans
The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers (, , , ) are a German-speaking (more specifically Zipser German-speaking as native dialect) sub-ethnic group in Central- Eastern Europe and national minority in both Slovakia and Roma ...
minority in
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...
.
In 1924, it was a member of the ''Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Deutschen Parteien in der Slowakei'' with the
German National Party, the
Farmers' League, the
German Business Party and the German section of the Hungarian-German
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party but not with the
Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party nor with the Slovak section of the
German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic.
Its member of Parliament was, from 1925 to 1939,
Andor Nitsch (1883–1976).
Andor Nitsch
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Karpatendeutscher Familienforscher
References
German diaspora in Europe
Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia
Political parties established in 1920
German diaspora political parties
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