German Association

Call for elections by the German Association using the edelweiss party symbol for the Italian parliamentary elections in 1921

Deutscher Verband (DV) was the name of the amalgamation of the two bourgeois German parties in South Tyrol , which took place in October 1919 under the impression of the Italian annexation of South Tyrol : the Tyrolean People's Party , which in turn was formed in October 1918 from the merger of conservatives and Christian socialists and the German freedom party Party , while the South Tyrolean Social Democrats rejected the German Association and preferred to work with the Italian Socialists until they were dissolved by the Italian fascists in 1924.

In the Italian parliamentary elections in South Tyrol in 1921, the DV achieved more than 90% of the votes cast and thus all four parliamentary mandates that were awarded in this province (namely: Friedrich von Toggenburg , Wilhelm von Walther , Eduard Reut-Nicolussi and Karl Tinzl ) . The first chairman of the DV was Eduard Reut-Nicolussi; In 1923 he was replaced by the lawyer Karl Tinzl. Otto Vinatzer was the first secretary from 1919 to 1922. The most important press organ of the DV was the Christian-social “Tiroler” (from 1923 “Der compatriot”) until it was banned.

The German Association was dissolved by the fascist Mussolini government in 1926 as part of the Italy-wide party ban . In 1945 the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) continued the party-political tradition of the German Association. In addition to continuities of leaders, the party took over a. the edelweiss as a party symbol - the alpine flower that was used as a list symbol by the German Association as early as 1921.

Well-known representatives

literature

Oswald Angerer: Die Freiheitlichen Südtirols: Origin, program, organizational structure, acceptance; with special consideration of their cooperation with the Freedom Party of Austria and their position on the South Tyrol question , politikwiss. Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 2000.
Karin Goller: Canon Michael Gamper and its importance for the German language group in South Tyrol during the Italianization , politikwiss. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2011.
Manfred Kittel: German-speaking minorities 1945: A European comparison . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58002-0 , p. 377.

Footnotes

↑ Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970) , in: History of the Land of Tyrol. Volume 4/2. Athesia, Bolzano 1988
↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Stefan Lechner: The first option: the granting of Italian citizenship to the South Tyroleans as a result of the annexation in 1920 . In: Hannes Obermair , Stephanie Risse, Carlo Romeo (eds.): Regional civil society in motion. Festschrift for Hans Heiss (= Cittadini innanzi tutto ). Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 , p. 219-236, reference p. 223 .

[1] Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970) , in: History of the Land of Tyrol. Volume 4/2. Athesia, Bolzano 1988

[2] Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Stefan Lechner: The first option: the granting of Italian citizenship to the South Tyroleans as a result of the annexation in 1920 . In: Hannes Obermair , Stephanie Risse, Carlo Romeo (eds.): Regional civil society in motion. Festschrift for Hans Heiss (= Cittadini innanzi tutto ). Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 , p. 219-236, reference p. 223 .