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German Fatherland Party was a pro-war party in the German Empire
German Empire

The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of William I, German Emperor as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became Weimar republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of William II, German Emperor ....
.

The party was founded close to the end of 1917 and represented political circles supporting the war
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. Among founding members were Wolfgang Kapp
Wolfgang Kapp

Wolfgang Kapp was a Kingdom of Prussia civil servant and journalist. He was a strict nationalist, and a nominal leader of the so-called Kapp Putsch....
 (of the Kapp Putsch
Kapp Putsch

The Kapp Putsch ? or more accurately the Kapp-L?ttwitz Putsch ? was a 1920 coup d'?tat during the German revolution aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic....
 fame) and Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz

Alfred von Tirpitz was a Germany Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916....
 (naval minister and post-war party leader). Peak of its political influence was summer 1918 when it had around 1,250,000 members. Main source of the funding was the Third Supreme Command.






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German Fatherland Party was a pro-war party in the German Empire
German Empire

The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of William I, German Emperor as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became Weimar republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of William II, German Emperor ....
.

The party was founded close to the end of 1917 and represented political circles supporting the war
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. Among founding members were Wolfgang Kapp
Wolfgang Kapp

Wolfgang Kapp was a Kingdom of Prussia civil servant and journalist. He was a strict nationalist, and a nominal leader of the so-called Kapp Putsch....
 (of the Kapp Putsch
Kapp Putsch

The Kapp Putsch ? or more accurately the Kapp-L?ttwitz Putsch ? was a 1920 coup d'?tat during the German revolution aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic....
 fame) and Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz

Alfred von Tirpitz was a Germany Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916....
 (naval minister and post-war party leader). Peak of its political influence was summer 1918 when it had around 1,250,000 members. Main source of the funding was the Third Supreme Command. The party was dissolved after German Revolution
German Revolution

The German Revolution was the politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I. The period lasted from 1918#November until the formal establishment of the Weimar Republic in August 1919....
 (December 10 1918).

One member, Anton Drexler
Anton Drexler

Anton Drexler was a German Nazi political leader of the 1920s....
, went on to form a similar organization, the German Workers Party, which later became the National Socialist German Workers Party
National Socialist German Workers Party

The 'National Socialist German Workers' Party', , commonly known in English as the , was a racialist, totalitarian political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945....
 (Nazi Party) which came to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
.

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