The '''Alsatian Progress Party''' ({{lang-de|Elsässiche Fortschrittspartei}}) was a [[political party]] in [[Alsace]], [[France]]. The party was founded in October 1926 by Georges Wolf and Camile Dalhet as a autonomist, liberal and secular party.<ref name="al">Fischer, Christopher J. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-t3l5UJKCcC Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939]''. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. pp. 190-191</ref><ref name="strass">Hülsen, Bernhard von. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=d7MgMCMEhRgC Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944]''. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 165</ref> Dahlet and Wolf had belonged to the [[Bas-Rhin]] branch of the Radical Party prior to establishing the Progress Party.<ref name="al"/>

 

 

In 1928 Dahlet became the party leader, after Wolf resigned from the party. Wolf left politics, supposedly for personal reasons, and went back to serve as a Protestant pastor. Dahlet was elected to parliament in the same year, and would retain his seat until 1940. With Dahlet as the party leader the Progress Party became more radical in its regionalist demands, albeit never straying over to the separatist camp.<ref name="al"/> The party won two seats in the [[Strasbourg municipal election, 1929|1929 Strasbourg municipal election]].<ref>Hülsen, Bernhard von. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=d7MgMCMEhRgC Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944]''. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 264</ref>