German Party (Yugoslavia)
The German Party ( Serbo-Croatian : Nemačka Stranka , was also called the Party of Germans or the Party of Germans in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ) was an existing in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and from 1923 in Party represented in parliament that saw itself as representing the German minority, especially in Vojvodina .
The country's chairman was Ludwig Kremling (1861–1930), who held the position of chairman of the Hungarian German People's Party from 1907–1918 (when his birthplace Bela Crkva was still part of Austria-Hungary ) . The managing party chairman was Stefan Kraft (1884–1959).
The German party was also affected by the ban on all nationality-specific parties in 1929.
Election successes in the elections to the Yugoslav federal parliament
- 1923: 43,007 votes, 8 seats
- 1925: 45,172 votes, 5 seats
- 1927: 48,032 votes, 6 seats
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler : Nationality Policy in Yugoslavia. The German minority 1918–1978 , 1980 ( ISBN 3-525-01322-1 ), pp. 30f, 118f
- Holm Sundhaussen : Yugoslavia , in: Lexicon for the history of parties in Europe , ed. v. Frank Wende , 1981, ISBN 3-520-81001-8 , pp. 347f
- Holm Sundhaussen: History of Yugoslavia 1918–1980 , 1982 ( ISBN 3-17-007289-7 ), p. 47
- Josef Müller: An important day in the political life of Dr. Stefan Kraft , in: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, vol. 34.1985, pp. 24–31
- Valentin Oberkersch : The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia , 1989 ( ISBN 3-926276-07-X ), pp. 202–215
- Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918–1941 , 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-631-59557-2 ), pp. 74-106
swell
- ↑ cf. Wilhelm Kosch , Biographical State Handbook , Volume 2, 1963; Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe , Volume 2, 1976, pp. 498f