^{page 108 note 1} The Bundesarchiv in Coblenz contains transcripts of the letters in the collection, Kleine Erwerbung 230–231, Roesicke. In the transcript each letter is dated December 10, 1918 and headed “Dr. Roesicke”. I surmise the addressee to be Conrad Freiherr von Wangenheim, head of the Bund der Landwirte.

^{page 108 note 2} Hertzman, Lewis, DNVP: Right-Wing Opposition in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1924 (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1963), chapter 2.Google Scholar

^{page 109 note 1} Besides Baecker, Westarp recalled the presence on November 10 of Bruno Schroeter of DKP Headquarters, Reinhold Wulle of the Deutsche Zeitung, and Leopold von Vietinghoff-Scheel of the Pan-German League, among others; Kuno Graf von Westarp,‘Kon- servative Politik in der Republik 1918–1932’, p. 6, manuscript among the Westarp Papers, written 1933–1942. For a description of the founding of the Deutsche Tageszeitung, see: Rebecca Tirrell, Sarah, German Agrarian Politics after Bismarck's Fall. The Formation of the Farmers' League (New York, 1951), pp. 176–177.Google Scholar

^{page 109 note 2} A list of members of the Parteivorstand is in Jahrbuch der Deutschnationalen Volkspartei 1920 (Berlin, 1920), pp. 8–10.Google Scholar

^{page 109 note 3} Ibid., p. 19.

^{page 109 note 4} Minor editorial adjustments include use of italics for the Latin phrase and for the newspaper title.

^{page 111 note 1} Hermann Dietrich, a member of the DKP, helped found the DNVP.

^{page 111 note 2} Karl Hans Henning aus dem Winckel, Silesian landowner, Reichstag deputy and member of the Prussian legislature.

^{page 111 note 3} Karl Joachim Gustav Emil Wilhelm von Levetzow, a deputy head of the Bund der Landwirte, former member of the Oldenburg legislature, was chairman of the board of the Deutsche Tageszeitung.

^{page 112 note 1} Ernst Georg Oertel was editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Tageszeitung when it was founded in 1894.