Christian People's Party (Germany, 1920)

A Catholic party, it was mainly based in the Rhineland area of western Germany.

[5][6] Bernhard Deermann [de] was appointed as the party's chairman.

The new party contested the 1920 federal elections in an alliance with the Bavarian People's Party known as the Christian Federalist Imperial Election List (German: Christlich-föderalistische Reichswahlliste),[7] and was partially blamed for the votes lost by the Centre party.

[8] The CVP received around 65,000 votes, mostly in the Centre strongholds of Aachen, Cologne Düsseldorf, Koblenz and Trier,[9] winning one seat,[10] taken by Deerman.

The Christian People's Party also contested the 1921 Prussian state election, but failed to win a seat after receiving 0.1% of the vote.