Democratic Union (Germany)

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The Democratic Union (German: Demokratische Vereinigung, DV) was a German political party in the German Empire.

The Union was founded in 1908 by former members of the Freeminded Union (Freisinnigen Vereinigung). The party demanded full equal voting rights for all, and a strict separation of Church and State. It was not principled, or "revolutionary" against Wilhelmine Germany though.

Important party members were Theodor Barth, Rudolf Breitscheid (first chairman) and Hellmut von Gerlach. Carl von Ossietzky would join the party as well, in 1908, and would from 1911 on publish the party's weekly Das freie Volk.

The First World War would bring an end to the party. Hellmut von Gerlach, and some of his followers, would help start the German Democratic Party in 1918.