Committee of the German Baltic Parties Committee of the German Baltic Parties The Committee of the German-Baltic Parties (, ADP) was an alliance of Baltic German political parties in Latvia during the inter-war period. Its members included the German-Baltic Democratic Party, the German-Baltic Progressive Party, the German-Baltic Reform Party, the German-Baltic People's Party, the German-Baltic Integration Party, the German-Baltic State Party and the Voters Association of Mitau. The alliance was established in early 1920 as a successor to the National Committee. won six seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections. It retained its six seats in the 1st Saeima after the 1922 elections, but was reduced
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