German Agricultural Party

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The German Agrarian Party was a farmers' party in Austria-Hungary . It was founded in 1905 by members of the Bohemian state parliament.

history

While the Czech farmers in Bohemia had founded their own farmers' parties from the beginning of the 1890s (see Českoslovanská strana agrární ), the political representatives of the peasant class still organized themselves for a long time in the existing German parties, especially in the German People's Party , the German Progressive Party and the Pan-German Association . In addition, there were older interest groups such as the “German Central Agricultural Association” and the organizations of the “Association of German Farmers in Bohemia” or the “German-Austrian Farmers' Association” from Budweis, founded in 1898. In 1901 the progressive German MPs Franz Peschka and Martin Soukup founded the “German Peasant Party” faction in the Reichsrat, which was also represented in the Bohemian state parliament. Here, however, it existed within the German Progressive Party. In 1902 a “German-Agrarian Working Committee for Bohemia” was established, in which members of the Imperial Council and the Bohemian Landtag coordinated the political work for the peasantry. In the spring of 1905, as a result of the end of the Czech obstruction in the Reichsrat and the German obstruction in the Bohemian Landtag, 17 German liberal or German national members of all German clubs in the Bohemian Landtag finally formed the German Agrarian Party. This made the Agricultural Party immediately the second largest German parliamentary group in the state parliament. In the Reichsrat, too, the faction of the Peasant Party was able to increase its number of members to eight by the spring of 1906. In the 1907 Reichsrat election , the Agrarian Party was able to win 16 seats, making it the strongest German party in Bohemia, level with the Social Democrats. There were also around a dozen MPs from Moravia, Silesia and Carinthia. In the 1911 Reichsrat election , 32 seats were obtained.

literature

  • Jiří Pokorný : Associations and parties in Bohemia. In: Adam Wandruszka , Peter Urbanitsch (Ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy. 1848-1918. Volume 8: Political Public and Civil Society. Volume 1: Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3540-8 , pp. 609–703.
  • Lothar Höbelt : Cornflower and Imperial Eagle. The German freedom parties of Old Austria 1882–1918 . Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7028-0320-3 , pp. 229–242.
  • Robert Kriechbaumer: The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99400-0 .