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The Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD) was an agrarian socialist political party in East Germany that existed from 1948 to 1990 as a satellite of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

The DBD was founded by the SED as an attempt to weaken the influence of the Christian Democratic Union and Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in the rural community. The leadership cadre came from the ranks of the SED, and it came to have 117,000 members by the late 1980s. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the DBD attempted to transform itself into an ecological agrarian party, but it lost the March 1990 Volkskammer election. In September, it merged into the CDU.

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