Conservative Party (Prussia)

Conservative Party
Konservative Partei
FoundersLeopold von Gerlach
Ludwig von Gerlach
Friedrich Julius Stahl
Founded1848 (1848)
Dissolved1876 (1876)
Preceded byConservative faction in the Prussian National Assembly
Succeeded byGerman Conservative Party
Free Conservative Party
NewspaperNeue Preußische Zeitung (commonly called the Kreuzzeitung)
IdeologyConservatism
Monarchism
Anti-parliamentarianism
Defense of Junker interests
Political positionRight-wing

The Conservative Party (German: Konservative Partei) was a political party in Prussia which was founded in 1848 by the relatively loose cooperation of conservative associations, groups and members of parliament.

In 1866 the Free Conservative Party (known as the German Reich Party in the Reichstag from 1871) split from the Conservatives, who were then called Old Conservatives. In 1876 the Conservative Party merged with the newly founded German Conservative Party.