The German bourgeois centrist parties – the German Democratic Party (DDP) and German People's Party (DVP) – proved insignificant throughout the Weimar period. Upper Silesians abandoned these parties earlier than the rest of Germany.
The centre-right German People’s Party (Deutsche Volkspartei, DVP) and the conservative DNVP were able to benefit, for a while, from the decline of their leftliberal competitor. However, they were facing the risk of being seen as too …