German People's Party (Austria)

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The German People's Party was a political party in Austria during the final years of Austria-Hungary .

In June 1896, the German People's Party split from the Schönerer movement under the leadership of Otto Steinwender . It emerged from the German National Party founded in 1891 . In the following years, the German People's Party was able to achieve greater electoral successes with moderate anti-Semitic rhetoric than its more radical idea-giver Schönerer with his Pan-German Association .

The party program of the German People's Party of 1896 followed in most respects the German national Linz program , in which Steinwender had already participated. The program was German national , liberal and anti-Semitic . The party was in favor of the alliance with the German Reich , for the “protection of Germanness in Austria” by law, for the “elimination of the Slavic preponderance” by outsourcing Galicia .

In the Reichsrat elections of 1897 , the party won 46 seats, in 1901 49 seats. She celebrated her greatest successes in Styria, Carinthia and Bohemia. In Vienna she lost many votes to the Christian social competition. In the elections of 1907 , the People's Party lost seats to the mass parties due to the introduction of universal suffrage and only held 25 members. Therefore a merger with German agrarians took place to form the German national association . In 1920 the third major party of the First Republic emerged , the Greater German People's Party .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert S. Wistrich : The Jews of Vienna in the age of Emperor Franz Joseph. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-20598-342-4 , p. 177; Steven Beller: History of Austria. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-20577-528-7 , p. 148; Nikolaj Beier: Above all, I am me. Judaism, acculturation and anti-Semitism in Arthur Schnitzler's life and work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0255-6 , p. 29f.
  2. ^ Albert Fuchs: Spiritual currents in Austria, 1867-1918. Löcker, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85409-217-2 , p. 187; Nikolaj Beier: Above all, I am me. Judaism, acculturation and anti-Semitism in Arthur Schnitzler's life and work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0255-6 , p. 29f.
  3. ^ A b People's Party in Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 20, Leipzig 1909, p. 237.