German Christian Social People's Party

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The German Christian Social People's Party was a bourgeois Christian party in Czechoslovakia between the First World War and the de facto self-dissolution in 1938. The voters were mainly Catholics of the German-speaking population group .

Emergence

The party already had roots in the Christian Social Party of the multi-ethnic state of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , which, however, hardly played a political role among the German Bohemians and German Moravians . Before the First World War, it had only two members of the Reichsrat from these electoral districts .

The German Christian Social People's Party was founded in 1919 and its Christian-oriented party program was designed by the moral theologian and social ethicist Karl Hilgenreiner together with Robert Mayr-Harting .

Political development

In the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic (ČS), the party, together with the Christian parties of the Czechs and Slovaks, turned against the anti-church efforts of the post-war governments.

Since October 1922 the party supported the Czechoslovak government along with some other parties belonging to the German-speaking population group. Since 1926 it has appointed a minister, Robert Mayr-Harting. Because of their collaboration in the new state, these parties were called activists (see Activism and Negativism ).

Election results

In the parliamentary elections in 1920, the party got 2.5% of the vote and received 9 seats. In 1925 it was 4.4% and 13 seats. In the elections of 1929 the party got 4.7% and 14 seats. It suffered heavy losses in 1935. It only came to 2% with six mandates.

In view of the inlet for the Sudeten German Party of Konrad Henlein , the People's Party ended after the " connection " of Austria to the Nazi Germany in 1938 their activities.

literature

  • Hans Schütz: The German Christian Social People's Party in the First Czechoslovak Republic . In: Karl Bosl (Ed.): The First Czechoslovak Republic as a multinational party state. Lectures at the meetings of the Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee from November 24-27, 1977 and from April 20-23 , 1978 ( Bad Wiesseer Meetings of the Collegium Carolinum. ). Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49181-4 , pp. 271-290.
  • Jaroslav Šebek: Sudeten German Catholicism on the Way of the Cross - Political Activities of the Sudeten German Catholics in the First Czechoslovak Republic in the 1930s . LIT Verlag, Berlin and Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-9433-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (Ed.): "Save this Austria" - Protocols of the Christian Social Party Conference of the First Republic (=  series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library . Volume 27 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77378-8 , pp. 221 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Hilgenreiner Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 316.
  3. ↑ Catholic Church and Culture in Bohemia: Selected Treatises. Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2005, p. 322 Partial digitization
  4. ^ The Sudeten Germans in CSR up to the Munich Agreement (1918–1938) ( Memento from December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Karel Vodička: The political system of the Czech Republic. VS Verlag, 2005 p. 25 Partial digitization
  6. ↑ German anti-fascists from Czechoslovakia in archive documents (1933–1948) ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )