 The party set itself up as the defender of savers and called for the creation of as broad a middle class as possible.In contrast to the Reich Party of the German Middle Class (WP), another middle class party, it sought to represent those who were worst hit by the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, with the WP representing the property owners who had did well from the crisis.A youth movement, "Posadowsky Jugendbund", was attached to the party, taking its name from the party's honorary chairman Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, a former Vice-Chancellor of Germany.