Lower Saxony State Party
Political party in Germany
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The Lower Saxony State Party (Niedersächsische Landespartei, NLP) was a short lived regionalist political party in Germany.
Lower Saxon State Party Niedersächsische Landespartei | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Heinrich Hellwege |
| Founder | Heinrich Hellwege |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1947 |
| Preceded by | German-Hanoverian Party |
| Succeeded by | German Party |
| Headquarters | Hanover |
| Ideology | Conservativism Regionalism German nationalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
It was founded in 1945 as a recreation of the regionalist German-Hanoverian Party that had been active in the period between the creation of the German Empire and the rise of the Nazi Party. The NLP called for the establishment of a Lower Saxon state within a federal Germany and sought to represent Christian conservatism.[1]
In 1947, after the state of Lower Saxony had been created, the party adopted the name German Party (Deutsche Partei, DP).
