Alpine cultural association Südmark

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The Alpenländischer Kulturverband Südmark (AKVS) is an association that has existed in Austria since 1952 and is one of the so-called 'protection associations'.

Club history

After the Second World War, some Austrians still saw the Styrian border threatened from the Yugoslav side and therefore tried to found a so-called 'Schutzverein'. This succession of club should the German School Society Southmarch (DSV) be in 1938 at the annexation of Austria to the German Reich dissolved into line and the National Association for Germans abroad was incorporated (VDA).

Efforts to found this new protection association with the name Alpenländischer Kulturverband Südmark (AKVS) were initially fruitless in 1951 and the association continued to be banned, probably because of the high proportion of National Socialist members before 1933 as well as the high number of illegal National Socialists among the club's activists 1933 to 1938. In 1952, however, the AKVS was re-established, and in 1968 part of the VDA's assets were returned. The AKVS, which is still in existence today, has the task of protecting the border and looking after German communities abroad . In 1985 the number of members of the AKVS was over 2000. Although the association is currently only of minor importance, it influenced Styrian cultural policy considerably in the 1950s and 1960s.

Political classification

According to the Handbook of the Austrian Political System , the AKVS acts in the run-up to and in the context of right-wing extremism, in which only individual elements of right-wing extremist ideology or cross-connections to and cooperation with right-wing extremist groups can be identified. The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) counts the AKVS to a number of organizations that concentrate primarily on ideological and cultural work and fulfill an important integration function in the right-wing extremist camp, because they have both militant and moderate right-wing extremists among their members and Functionaries count. The AKVS falls under the larger and more influential organizations of 'cultural right extremism'. It is characterized as a moderate right-wing extremist association with a main focus on cultural-political issues and border country work of predominantly regional importance (DÖW 1981: 177) and as a "German-nationally oriented small group that should be settled due to its contacts in the run-up to right-wing extremism". The association magazine has been plumb bobbins since 1962 .

literature

  • Bailer-Galanda, Brigitte & Lasek, Wilhelm & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (1997). "Political extremism (right-wing extremism)". In: Dachs, Herbert & Herlich, Peter & Gottweis, Herbert & Horner, Franz & Kramer, Helmut & Lauber, Volkmar & Müller, Wolfgang C. & Tálos, Emmerich (eds.). Handbook of the Austrian Political System. The second republic . Third, expanded and completely revised edition. Vienna: Manzsche publishing and university bookstore. Pp. 333-341.
  • Hölzl, Wolfgang (1991). "The Greater German Confessor". National and National Socialist Rosegger reception . (European university publications series I volume 1236). Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris: Long.
  • Zettelbauer, Heidrun (2008). "The national awakening experience of Ida Maria Deschmann, described in 1919. Or: From inscribing / writing life-historical experiences in a national frame of reference". In: Franz, Margit & Halbrainer, Heimo & Lamprecht, Gerald & Schmidlechner, Karin M. & Staudinger, Eduard G. & Stromberger, Monika & Strutz, Andrea & Suppanz, Werner & Zettelbauer, Heidrun (eds.). Mapping Contemporary History. Contemporary stories in discourse. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. Pp. 203-242.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zettelbauer, Heidrun (2008). "The national awakening experience of Ida Maria Deschmann, described in 1919. Or: From inscribing / writing life-historical experiences in a national frame of reference". In: Franz, Margit & Halbrainer, Heimo & Lamprecht, Gerald & Schmidlechner, Karin M. & Staudinger, Eduard G. & Stromberger, Monika & Strutz, Andrea & Suppanz, Werner & Zettelbauer, Heidrun (eds.). Mapping Contemporary History. Contemporary stories in discourse . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. P. 220.
  2. ↑ Hölzl, Wolfgang (1991). "The Greater German Confessor". National and National Socialist Rosegger reception . (European university publications series I volume 1236). Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris: Long. P. 235.
  3. ^ Bailer-Galanda, Brigitte & Lasek, Wilhelm & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (1997). "Political extremism (right-wing extremism)". In: Dachs, Herbert & Herlich, Peter & Gottweis, Herbert & Horner, Franz & Kramer, Helmut & Lauber, Volkmar & Müller, Wolfgang C. & Tálos, Emmerich (eds.). Handbook of the Austrian Political System. The second republic . Third, expanded and completely revised edition. Vienna: Manzsche publishing and university bookstore. P. 337 f.
  4. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.) (1981). Right-wing extremism in Austria after 1945 . Fifth, revised and expanded edition. Vienna: Austrian Federal Publishing House. P. 163 f.
  5. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.) (1981). Right-wing extremism in Austria after 1945 . Fifth, revised and expanded edition. Vienna: Austrian Federal Publishing House. P. 177
  6. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance (ed.) (1993). Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism . Vienna: Deuticke. P. 240.