Democratic People's Party (Germany)

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The Democratic People's Party (Demokratische Volkspartei, DVP) was a short-lived German political party established in 1945 in Baden-Württemberg.

Co-founded by Reinhold Maier and Theodor Heuss, in 1948 the party became the Free Democratic Party regional branch for Baden-Württemberg.

The name of the party was taken from that of an earlier German political party formed in 1863 by a radical faction of the German Progressive Party which went on to become the German People's Party (Deutsche Volkspartei) in 1868.

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