Anti-Semite Association

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The Antisemitenbund or Deutschösterreichischer Schutzverein Antisemitenbund was an Austrian anti-Semitic collective movement and existed between 1919 and 1938. Its printed organ appeared as the magazine Der Eiserne Besen .

development

The anti-Semitic union was founded by the Christian social politician Anton Jerzabek in 1919 in Vienna . This anti-Semitic and non-partisan collective movement initially had its headquarters in Gersthof (Schindlergasse 20), later in Salzburg .

In the time of crisis after the First World War , the anti-Semite union organized several mass events in Vienna and other parts of the country, where speakers such as Walter Riehl , Josef Ursin , Anton Orel or Leopold Kunschak demanded the “expulsion of the Eastern Jews” and presented communism as “carried by Jews”. In 1921 the Anti-Semite Association demanded the creation of a "Jewish cadastre" for Vienna. Especially in Tyrol , where very few Jews lived anyway, very extreme anti-Semitic demands were made, such as a far-reaching professional ban, a ban on land and house purchases, a ban on the timber and cattle trade, etc. When the economic and political crisis of 1923/24 was gradually overcome , the anti-Semite alliance lost much of its attraction.

At the beginning of Austrofascism in 1933, the federal government was officially banned by the authoritarian corporate state , as it was considered an association of the NSDAP , but was allowed to continue its activities. After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, the Federation was dissolved. The federal organ, "Der Eiserne Besen", was published in Vienna from 1919 to 1922, and then until 1932 in Salzburg. In terms of diction and expression, the Gazette can be seen as the forerunner of the Nazi propaganda paper “ Der Stürmer ”.

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz: Handbook of Antisemitism , Volume 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2 , pp. 33-34.
  • Bruce F. Pauly: From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-semitism. University of North Carolina Press, 1992, pp. 183 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Creation of a register of Jews for Vienna. In:  Reichspost , May 11, 1921, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  2. ↑ The Anti-Semite Association . In: Reichspost . June 29, 1919, p. 8. Digital copy online at Vienna Digital Library .
  3. ^ Francis L. Carsten : Fascism in Austria. From Schönerer to Hitler . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7705-1408-4 , p. 90–96 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00042027-2 .