German Community (Austria)
The German Community (DG) was the camouflage for a secret society in Austria .
The anti-socialist and anti-Semitic German Community (Austria) was founded in 1919 by representatives of Catholic and German national student associations in Vienna . It had a total of around 100 prominent members, including university professors , officers , economists, etc. Prominent members were u. a. Carl von Bardolff , Arthur Seyß-Inquart , Engelbert Dollfuss , Alfons Dopsch , Othmar Spann , Rudolf Much , Oswald Menghin , Emmerich Czermak , Wilhelm Czermak , Hermann Neubacher , Leopold Arzt and Karl Wache .
In 1919–1930 the secret society “Die Burg” was disguised as an association “German Community”, the alleged purpose of which was “to raise the economic strength of German Austria ”. The actual goal, however, was to fill key academic and state positions in Austria with members or sympathizers of society. This went hand in hand with the fight against the so-called "oddity" to which liberals , socialists , Marxists , Bolsheviks , Jews , Freemasons and the sympathizers of all of these were counted. The structure and reception rituals of society were strongly oriented towards them, despite the hostility to the Freemasons.
In 1930 the community was dissolved. Since it was founded, the DG has been closely linked to the German Club in terms of both personnel and structure . This was founded in Vienna in 1908 and existed until 1939. In 1938 the German Club welcomed the connection and announced that five members of the German Club belonged to the Seyß-Inquart government: in addition to Seyß himself, Hans Fischböck , Franz Hueber , Hugo Jury and Oswald Menghin . In addition to the German Club, the academic section and the conspiratorial professors' clique “ Bärenhöhle ” at the University of Vienna were closely linked with the German community.
literature
- Martina Aicher: German Community (Austria) . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Anti-Semitism in Past and Present , Vol. 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements. de Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 150–151.
- Gerhard Jagschitz : The putsch. The National Socialists in Austria in 1934. Styriaverlag, Graz / Vienna 1976.
- Wolfgang Rosar: German community. Seyss-Inquart and the Anschluss . Europa-Verlag, Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1971.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martina Aicher: German Community (Austria) . In: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Handbook of Antisemitism. Anti-Semitism in Past and Present , Vol. 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements. de Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 151.
- ^ Mitchell G. Ash: The university as a place of politics since 1848. In: University - Politics - Society . V&R unipress, 2015, p. 84–86 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).