Aargau Patriotic Association

The Aargau Patriotic Association ( AVV ) was a right-wing Swiss organization that existed from 1918 to 2019.

Form and ideology

The AVV was founded on November 11, 1918 in Windisch AG «as a bourgeois reaction to the general strike of 1918 ». Was founding president Eugen Bircher , who close relations with the German Free Corps , as well as right-wing exponents and anti-democratic coup as Waldemar Pabst and Erich Ludendorff used. In April 1919 it joined forces with similar organizations from other cantons to form the Swiss Patriotic Association , which operated "armed vigilante groups and its own political intelligence service ". In the first years of its existence, the organization had over 15,000 members. Their original goal was to avert what they saw as the threat of a socialist overthrow in Switzerland. While the Swiss Patriotic Association dissolved itself in 1948 after a bribery scandal, its former Aargau section continued to exist until 2019. The AVV published the Bulletin Die Lupe ( OCLC 778338684 ) four times a year . After a massive decline in membership, the AVV, which last had only 200 members, decided to dissolve it in August 2019. The last president from 1995 to 2019 was the politician Andreas A. Glarner, who was on the right wing of the SVP .

In the publication " The Unheimlichen Patrioten ", the AVV was assigned to the New Right in 1979 . The “Supplementary Volume 1979-84” dedicates a subchapter in the chapter “ The reactionaries ” to the AVV .

Association publications

• Wolfgang von Wartburg . On the nature and importance of communism. OCLC 603800414
• Eugen Bircher . Helveticus: The West-Eastern Problem in the Light of Intellectual History. A fragment. OCLC 82258025
• Hans Hemmeler (ed.). Festschrift Eugen Bircher: The soldier, military writer and politician Dr. med. Eugen Bircher, Oberstdivisionär zD, Nationalrat on the 70th birthday of the Aargau patriotic association of friends, comrades and employees. (1952) OCLC 38827394
• Supervision complaint against the radio broadcast DRS 32. Fact file from September 16 and 21, 1979. (1980) OCLC 79672056
• Rudolf Burger . Appeal 720 Years of the Swiss Confederation: Threats, Crisis and Opportunities for Switzerland in the World Yesterday and Today. (2011) OCLC 778319049
• Stephan Biland . 75 years: 1918-1993 Aargau Patriotic Association. (1993) OCLC 82585040
• 25 years of the Aargau Patriotic Association 1918-1943: A memorial. (1943) OCLC 83542960

literature

• Silvio Blatter : Not a beautiful country . 3. Edition. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1991, DNB  911034706 .
• Jürg Frischknecht , Peter Haffner , Ueli Haldimann , Peter Niggli : The Weird Patriots: Political Reaction in Switzerland . A current handbook with addendum 1979–84. 6th (no longer censored) edition. Limmat Verlag , Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-85791-077-1 .
• Willi Gautschi : History of the Canton of Aargau: 1885-1953 , Zurich 1978.
• Daniel Heller: Eugen Bircher. Doctor, military, politician. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-85823-195-9 .
• Jörg Meier: After 101 years: the patriotic association dissolves - that says President Andreas Glarner . In: Aargauer Zeitung , November 22, 2019.
• Andreas Thürer: The Swiss Patriotic Association and the vigilante groups united in it 1919–1923 . Basel 1978, OCLC 601026767 (licentiate thesis at the University of Basel ).
• Andreas Thürer: The Swiss Patriotic Association 1919–1930 / 31. Dissertation, University of Basel, Basel 2010; Table of contents (PDF).

Web links

• Andreas Thürer: Swiss Patriotic Association. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Literature from and about the Aargau Patriotic Association in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ AVV website ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} The uncanny patriots , 1987, chapter An der Aargauer Front: Die Vaterländische Vereinigung , pp. 282–291.
3. ^ Willi Gautschi : History of the Canton of Aargau 1885–1953 . tape 3 . Baden Verlag, Baden 1978, p. 234-239 .
4. ^ AVV website ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/kanton-aargau/nach-101-jahren-vaterlaendischer-verein-loest-sich-auf-das-sagt-praesident-andreas-glarner-136005513#
6. ↑ The uncanny patriots , 1987, chapter Aargau Patriotic Association - brave in political war. Pp. 628-632.