This article aims to give a historical outline of liberalism in Germany. The liberal parties dealt with in the timeline below are, largely, those which received sufficient support at one time or another to have been represented in parliament. Not all parties so included, however, necessarily labeled themselves "liberal". The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme. Background The early high points of liberalism in Germany were the Hambacher Fest (1832) and the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. In the Frankfurt Parliament National Assembly in the Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt Paulskirche (1848/1849), the bourgeois liberal factions Casino and Württemberger Hof (the latter led by Heinrich von Gagern) were the majority. They favored a constitutional monarchy, popular sovereignty, and parliamentary rule. Organized liberalism developed in the 1860s, combining the previous liberal and democratic currents. Between 1867 and 1933 liberalism was divided into progressive liberal and national liberal factions. Since 1945 only one liberal party has been significant in politics at the national level: The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP). History Pre 1860s From German Progress Party to German State Party 1861: Liberals united in the German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) 1867: The moderate faction seceded as the ⇒ National Liberal Party 1868: A radical South German faction seceded as the ⇒ Democratic People's Party 1884: The party merged with the ⇒ Liberal Union into the German Freeminded Party (Deutsche Freisinnige Partei) 1893: The party split in the Freeminded People's Party (Freisinnige Volkspartei) and the ⇒ Freeminded Union (Freisinnige Vereinigung) 1910: The FVP merged with the ⇒ Freeminded Union and the ⇒ German People's Party into the Progressive People's Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei) 1918: The party is reorganised into the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei), incorporating parts of the ⇒ National Liberal Party 1930: The DDP in an attempt to survive reorganised itself into the German State Party (Deutsche Staatspartei) 1933: The party is forced to dissolve itself German People's Party (1868) 1868: A radical faction of the ⇒ German Progress Party formed the German People's Party (Deutsche Volkspartei) 1910: The DVP merged into the ⇒ Progressive People's Party National Liberal Party / German People's Party (1918) National Liberals 1867: A right-wing faction of the ⇒ German Progress Party formed the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei) 1871: A conservative faction of NLP formed the Imperial Liberal Party (Liberale Reichspartei) 1880: A left-wing faction seceded as the ⇒