German Club (Austrian House of Representatives)
The German Club was a German-free parliamentary group in the Austrian House of Representatives . It existed from 1885 to 1888.
background
After the elections in 1885, a strong group separated from the United Left in order to represent the interests of the Germans within the Habsburg Monarchy more sharply against the government and the allegedly favored Slavs . On September 21, 1885, 38 MPs constituted the German Club . Most of the members came from Bohemia and Styria .
In February 1887 almost half of the parliamentary group - 18 members of the “left”, “social reformation” wing - left the German Club and formed the German National Association . In November 1888 the remaining rump of the German Club merged with the German-Austrian Club for the United German Left .
literature
- Lothar Höbelt : Cornflower and Imperial Eagle. The German freedom parties of Old Austria 1882-1918. , Munich 1993. ISBN 3-486-55984-2
- German club . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1906, p. 733
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Club. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 1906, Retrieved July 22, 2017 .