The Independent Regional Party for Alsace-Lorraine was a political party

Political party

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 in Alsace

Alsace

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, France

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. The party was founded by a group of key supporters of the publication Die Zukunft. The Landespartei represented the radical fringe of the broader Alsatian autonomist movement.

The founding meeting of the Landespartei took place in the Restaurant l'Abbatoir in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 in September 1927. Around 300 persons attended the founding meeting. The meeting was led by Paul Schall, René Hauss and Karl Roos. A programme of German linguistic demands was formulated, largely on the pattern of the Heimatbund.

In the 1928 parliamentary election Landespartei obtained 11.5% of the votes in lower Alsace.

In 1928 the Landespartei joined the Volksfront

Volksfront (Alsace)

Volksfront was a political coalition in Alsace, France. Volksfront was formed in 1928 by the Popular Republican Union , a group of communists led by Charles Hueber, Progressives led by Dahlet and the Landespartei...

, a coalition of Alsatian political parties favouring autonomy for the region.

In the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg

Strasbourg municipal election, 1929

Elections to the municipal council of Strasbourg, France were held in May 1929. The elected council would serve for a six-year mandate period. The election saw the autonomist coalition Volksfront defeat an anti-clericalist and assimilationist coalition of the incumbent socialist mayor Jacques...

, the party won five seats and became part of the ruling majority in the city council. The party lost one of its seats in the subsequent 1935 municipal election, in which the autonomist side lost its majority.

The Landespartei gradually moved closer to fascism

Fascism

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. Its new publication, Die Elsaß-Lothringigische Zeitung often praised Adolf Hitler

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 and Benito Mussolini

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. Moreover, splinter-groups of the party began forming uniformed combat groups styled after the SA

SA

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.

In April 1939 the erstwhile communist newspaper Die Neue Welt

Die Neue Welt

Die Neue Welt was a newspaper issued from Alsace, France. It was founded in the end of January 1921 by Charles Hueber, a local leader of the French Communist Party in Alsace...

was merged into Elsass-Lothringissche Zeitung. In July 1939, the Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party

Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party

The Alsatian Workers and Peasants Party , initially the Opposition Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine , was a political party in Alsace-Lorraine. The party was led by Jean-Pierre Mourer and Charles Hueber. The party was founded in late October 1929...

(which had published Die Neue Welt) merged into the Landespartei.