The German right, 1918-1930 : political parties, organized interests, and patriotic associations in the struggle against Weimar Democracy / Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Setting the Context -- 1 Revolution and Realignment -- The Many Faces of Wilhelmine Conservatism -- World War I and the Fatherland Party -- The Search for Conservative Unity -- Diversity in Unity -- Conflicting Messages -- Financing the Campaign -- Relief and Disappointment -- 2 Infrastructure of the German Right -- Industry and Big Business -- Agriculture -- Christian-National Labor -- The Middle Classes
3 Forging a Conservative Synthesis -- In Search of an Identity -- Defining Itself at Weimar -- Building a Social Constituency -- The Quest for Synthesis -- The Perils of Putschism -- To the Polls -- A Mixed Verdict -- 4 Growth and Consolidation -- Reaffirming the Hard Line -- Catholics on the Right -- The Prussian Campaign -- Retreat into Demagogy -- Tweaking the Nationalist Profile -- 5 The Radical Right -- The Pan-German League -- Racism and the DNVP -- Secession -- The Paramilitary Right -- The Stahlhelm -- The Young German Order -- United Patriotic Leagues -- 6 1923 -- A Missed Opportunity?
Coping with Inflation -- Cuno, the DNVP, and the Patriotic Right -- From Cuno to Stresemann -- Putschism on the Right -- The Crisis Peaks -- At the Crossroads -- 7 From Triumph to Schism -- The Politics of Stabilization -- Stabilization under Fire -- The National Liberal Revolt -- Playing the Racist Card -- A ''Second Versailles'' -- From Victory to Frustration -- The Dawes Crisis -- 8 Stabilization from the Right? -- Stalemate in Berlin -- Back to the Polls -- Compromise at Last -- The Struggle for the Presidency -- The Second Round -- Organized Interests and Stabilization
9 Paladins of the Right -- The June Club -- The Ring Movement -- The Political College -- The Fichte Society -- The Great Caesura: 1923 -- The German Gentlemen's Club -- 10 A Resurgent Nationalism -- The Quest for Right-Wing Unity -- Aristocratic Offensive -- The Burden of Power -- Foreign Policy Challenges -- The Locarno Predicament -- 11 The Road Back to Power -- In the Wake of Locarno -- The Economic Imperative -- Rumblings on the Radical Right -- The Saxon Interlude -- The Return to Power -- 12 The Burden of Responsibility -- Initial Successes, Initial Challenges -- The Price of Compromise
Revolt on the Patriotic Right -- A Restless Party -- Cultural Politics and the End of the Coalition -- Crisis in the Countryside -- Heavy Industry to the Rescue -- 13 From Defeat to Crisis -- The Challenge of Special Interests -- Campaign Dilemmas -- Campaign Financing -- The Anatomy of Defeat -- Hugenberg and the Pan-Germans -- Westarp's Retreat -- The Battle Lines Form -- Hugenberg's Road to Victory -- 14 Reverberations and Realignment -- Turmoil in the People's Party -- The Center's Confessional Gambit -- Towards a ''Hugenberg Party'' -- Christian-Social Unrest
Summary
"The failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism remains one of the most challenging problems of 20th-century European history. The German Right, 1918-1930 sheds new light on this problem by examining the role that the non-Nazi Right played in the destabilization of Weimar democracy in the period before the emergence of the Nazi Party as a mass party of middle-class protest. Larry Eugene Jones identifies a critical divide within the German Right between those prepared to work within the framework of Germany's new republican government and those irrevocably committed to its overthrow. This split was only greatly exacerbated by the course of German economic development in the 1920s, leaving the various organizations that comprised the German Right defenceless against the challenge of National Socialism. At no point was the disunity of the non-Nazi Right in the face of Nazism more apparent that in the September 1930 Reichstag elections"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020)
