WESTARP, KUNO, COUNT (1864— ), German politician, was born at Ludom. Aug. 12. 1864, and educated at the universi ties of Tubingen, Breslau, Leipzig and Berlin. He entered the civil service in 1886, becoming Director of Police in Schoneberg (1904), President of Police (1908) and Oberverwaltungsgerichts rat (1908). In 1920, after the establishment of the German Re public, he retired. In 1908 he had entered the Reichstag as a Conservative. In 1919 he opposed the government on the ques tion of fulfilling the terms of the Allied ultimatum. From 1925 he was chairman of the Reichstag group of the German Na tional People's party. After the revolution the Conservative party
was embodied in the Nationalist party, without entirely losing its own identity. At the beginning of 1928 it issued an appeal for votes for the candidates of a "people's National Bloc," in opposition to the Nationalist party candidates, together with a programme advocating the restoration of the monarchy by legal means. This action led to the resignation of Count Westarp from the leadership of the party.