The Agricultural League was a German

Germany

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 agrarian

Agrarianism

Agrarianism has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values...

 political party

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 during the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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. It was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe

Elbe

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 and was allied with the German National People's Party

German National People's Party

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.

Some regional groups of the Agricultural League participated in state and Reichstag

Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

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elections, such as the Hessische Bauernbund, Thüringer Landbund, and Württembergischer Bauern- und Weingärtnerbund.