Schleswig-Holsteinische Bauern- und Landarbeiterdemokratie (also known as Schleswig-Holsteinische Landespartei) was a regional 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

Political party

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 based in Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

 during the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

. The party won a single seat in the 1919 federal election and one in Prussia the same year

Elections in the Free State of Prussia

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A moderate party that leaned towards liberalism

Liberalism

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, the SHBLD co-operated with the German People's Party

German People's Party

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 in the 1919 elections. However Hinrich Lohse

Hinrich Lohse

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, who was appointed General Secretary of the party in 1920, went on to serve as a Nazi Party official.