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Lutheran Orthodoxy and the Beginning of Conservative Party Organization in Prussia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Marjorie Lamberti
Marjorie Lamberti
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Assistant Professor of HistoryMiddlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont*
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Since 1945 German historians, searching for answers to the question of the responsibility of the political parties for the failure of the Weimar Republic, have studied afresh the organization and political activity of parties in Germany. Their work concentrates on the history of parties after 1870, when they became centralized, mass organizations, and treats in a cursory manner the earlier stages in the formation of parties.1 In so far as recent and earlier historical studies delve into the period before 1870, they trace the origins of parties in Prussia to the Revolution of 1848. The relation of these parties to the partisan groupings that were formed in the territorial church during the Vormärz is overlooked.

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Church History , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 439 - 453
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1968

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