German Party of the Zips
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The German Party of the Zips was a party of the First Czechoslovak Republic founded at Kežmarok
Kežmarok
Kežmarok is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia , on the Poprad River.-History:...

 on 20–22 March 1920 aiming for the representation of the Zipser Germans
Zipser Germans
The Zipser Germans were/are a German-speaking ethnic group in former northern Kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia and in the northwest area of Romania called Maramureş. Those who did not escape from the Red Army were mostly expelled from Czechoslovakia....

 minority in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

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In 1924 it was a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Deutschen Parteien in der Slowakei with the German National Party
German National Party
The German Nationalist Party was a First Republic political party in Czechoslovakia, representing German population of Sudetenland. Its chairman and political face was Rudolf Lodgman von Auen....

, the Farmers' League
Farmers' League
Farmers' League was an ethnic German agrarian political party in Czechoslovakia. Ideologically the party was moderately conservative, having its base in the Sudetenland countryside. The party was led by Franz Spina. Landjugend was the youth wing of the party...

, the German Business Party and the German section of the Hungarian-German Provincial Christian-Socialist Party
Provincial Christian-Socialist Party
The Provincial Christian-Socialist Party was the main political party of ethnic Hungarians in the First Republic of Czechoslovakia.It was founded on 23 November 1919 in Košice, by the merger of Catholic associations from Bratislava and Košice, but the first party convention took place in...

 but not with the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party
Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party
The Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party was a social democratic political party in Slovakia . It was founded in 1919 by social democrats from ethnic minority communities. The party had a German and a Hungarian section...

 nor with the Slovak section of the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic.

Its member of Parliament was, from 1925 to 1939, Andor Nitsch (1883–1976).
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