History
The party's dispute with the Social Democrats in 1930 over unemployment benefits toppled the Grand Coalition government of Hermann Müller. In the election of September 1930, the DVP was one of the biggest losers, losing 15 of its 45 parliamentary seats. The DVP abolished itself in March 1933 after the Nazis came to power in January 1933.
Former elements of the DVP were involved in the creation of the Free Democratic Party after the Second World War.
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