German-Austrian People's Party

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The German-Austrian People's Party was a small party in the First Republic of Austria . In 1920 she stood for election under the designation Christian National Unit List .

history

Before the First World War there had been repeated conflicts between the Catholic youth leader Anton Orel and the Christian Social Party (CS). Orel was a representative of radical Christian anti-Semitism . When the Christian Socials decided towards the end of the war to recognize the young republic , Orel separated from the party, which he accused of promoting unrestricted "Jewish rule".

Therefore, Orel founded the Christian anti-Semitic German - Austrian People's Party on November 16, 1918 . Although not formally monarchist , it sought to restore the Habsburg Empire . Ideologically and programmatically determining were the conservative-romantic ideas of Orel, who, standing in the tradition of Karl von Vogelsang , sought a return to an idealized medieval social order. By turning away from the Christian faith, capitalism arose, which led to a separation of property and work, law and duty, and put classes in place of the estates . This would encourage profit-seeking and destroy communal relationships in society. For Orel, Judaism was responsible for these abuses . Therefore the party strove to establish an anti-capitalist corporate state with a "true Christian social order". Accordingly, she called for land reform to enable every family to purchase land and a home. The industrial production should be adjusted in favor of smaller independent producers. Together with the social reform, a Christian self-renewal of the people should also go hand in hand.

The party's positions were disseminated through leaflets and the party organ, the weekly newspaper Der Volkssturm . The party remained small, but its ideas on social issues exerted a certain influence on Christian social circles. The efforts to form a common electoral alliance under the name of Einig gegen Juda failed due to the resistance of the Vienna CS.

The party was unsuccessful in the elections. In the election for the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 2019, it received only 1,645 votes. In the National Council election on June 19, 1920 , at least 4,558 eligible voters voted for the party, which this time ran under the name of Christian National Unit List . Both times the result was not enough for a National Council mandate .

On February 22, 1922, the party disbanded and its members joined the CS. Orel founded the Karl Vogelsang Bund to spread his political ideas and stayed with CS for a few years. His close ally Franz Stöger could hold their own in the CS and brought it to the Second World War in 1946 to the ÖVP - District Director of Wieden .

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literature

  • Philipp Rohrbach: German-Austrian People's Party . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . tape 5 . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027878-1 , p. 199–200 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Joseph Görlich: A Catholic against Dollfuss Austria. The diary of the social reformer Anton Orel . In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives. Volume 26. Vienna 1973, p. 379 ( digitized online at hungaricana.hu)
  2. ^ Ernst Joseph Görlich: A Catholic against Dollfuss Austria. The diary of the social reformer Anton Orel . In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives. Volume 26. Vienna 1973, p. 385 ( digitized online at hungaricana.hu)