High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bavarian People`s Party (German: Bayerische Volkspartei; BVP) was the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, which broke off from the rest of the party in 1919 to pursue a more conservative, more Catholic, more Bavarian particularist course. The party displayed monarchist leanings (because many Bavarians had never accepted the overthrow of the House of Wittelsbach in 1918) and there was a period of near separatism in the early 1920s, culminating in the government of Gustav von Kahr`s unwillingness to abide by rulings from Berlin during the inflation crisis of 1923. This only came to an end with the shock of Adolf Hitler`s Beer Hall Putsch. Following the establishment of a more stable situation throughout Germany, the party came around to a more moderate line under the leadership of Heinrich Held.