Bavarian Peasants' League

Bavarian Peasants' League
Bayerischer Bauernbund
Founded1893
Dissolved1933
IdeologyAgrarianism
Bavarian nationalism
Classical liberalism
Conservatism
Protectionism

The Bavarian Peasants' League (German: Bayerischer Bauernbund, or BB) was a German political party in Bavaria from 1893 to 1933; in English it is also referred to as the Bavarian Farmers' League. The party represented the interests of Bavaria's rural population in the Bavarian state parliament and the German Reichstag. Its program was more liberal than those of most other agricultural interest groups of the era and strongly non-clerical. In 1922 it changed its name to the Bavarian Peasants' and Small Businesses' League (Bayerischer Bauern- und Mittelstandsbund) in a largely unsuccessful attempt to expand its voter base. With the rise of the Nazi Party, the BB's membership fell sharply. It disbanded in 1933, recommending that its members join Nazi agricultural groups.

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