Back Нямецкая вольнадумная народная партыя (Германія) Byelorussian Свободомислеща народна партия Bulgarian Freisinnige Volkspartei German Partido Popular Librepensador Spanish Parti populaire radical French Partito Popolare Liberale (1893) Italian 自由思想家人民党 Japanese
Free-minded People's Party Freisinnige Volkspartei | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Eugen Richter |
| Founded | 7 May 1893 |
| Dissolved | 6 March 1910 |
| Preceded by | German Free-minded Party |
| Merged into | Progressive People's Party |
| Ideology | Liberalism Radicalism Social progressivism Parliamentarism Laicism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | Yellow |
The Free-minded People's Party (German: Freisinnige Volkspartei, FVP) or, more rarely translated as the Radical People's Party,[1] was a social liberal party in the German Empire founded in 1893 as a result of the split of the German Free-minded Party. Dominated by Eugen Richter, who was party leader from 1893 until his death in 1906, the left-liberal FVP advocated parliamentarism, free trade and legal recognition of trade unions. It was generally critical of the government and in opposition to it.
The FVP was disbanded in 1910 after the Free-minded Union and German People's Party joined with it to form the Progressive People's Party.
- ^ Dawson, William Harbutt (1894). Germany and the Germans. Vol. 2. London: Chapman and Hall. p. 11.