Progressive People's Party (Germany)

Progressive People's Party
Chairman	Otto Fischbeck 1910–1912 Otto Wiemer 1912–1918
Founded	1910 March 6
Dissolved	1918 November 20
Preceded by	Free-minded People's Party Free-minded Union German People's Party
Succeeded by	German Democratic Party
Newspaper	NA
Ideology	Liberal democracy, Social liberalism, Parliamentarism, Laicism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	none
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The Progressive People's Party (German: Fortschrittliche Volkspartei, FVP) was a liberal party of late Imperial Germany. It was formed on 6 March 1910 as a merger of Freeminded People's Party, Freeminded Union, and German People's Party in order to unify the various liberal groups represented in parliament. the Progressives became a major force in parliament during the First World War, joining with the Majority Socialists and the Catholic Centre to form the Reichstag majority that would pass the famous Peace Resolution of 1917.

The party was disbanded in 1918 after the fall of the Empire, with most of its members joining the new German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei), which merged the Progressives with the left wing of the old National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei).

See also

• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• Liberalism in Germany