Siegfried Alfred Rudolf Friedrich von Kardorff (4 February 1873 - 12 October 1945) was a German politician.
He was born the son of Wilhelm von Kardorff and followed him in adopting a career in politics.
Describing himself as a "left-wing Free Conservative", Kardorff helped found the German National People's Party.
At one of its first public meetings in December 1918, Kardorff was the main speaker.
He declared: "Our new party, in which friendly right-wing parties have united, has no past and rejects any responsibility for the past.
We have a present and, if God will, a good future".
Kardorff pledged themselves to the monarchy, agriculture, the middle class and the church: "But we are not a party of Lutheran orthodoxy, rather we find recognition wherever living Christianity is found".Kardorff later joined the German People's Party, being a member of its "industrial right-wing" according to historian Stephen G.
Fritz.He also wrote political biographies of Otto von Bismarck and his father; the latter was praised by G.
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