German center
The German Center (initially: Independent Christian Social People's Party of the Germans in Austria ) was a Christian national party in Austria-Hungary . It emerged in 1911 as a split from the Christian Social Party and existed until 1918.
history
The founding of the German Center party goes back to the Christian Socialist member Raimund Neunteufel . In the Reichsrat election in 1911, without the consent of the party committees, he ran with his own list, the “Christian Social People's Party”, in the constituency of Styria 7 and was excluded from the Christian Social Party before the election. At the founding party conference on 8./9. In December 1911 he founded the Independent Christian Social People's Party of the Germans of Austria together with some Styrian Christian Socialists and became its chairman. Ferdinand Pantz, a member of the Christian Social Council, also joined the new party in 1912 . His apostasy from the Christian Social Party goes back to a conflict with the main advisor at the central office for the protection of agricultural interests in Vienna, Alfred Simitsch von Hohenblum . Pantz had previously worked in the central office himself and got into a dispute with Simitsch over a customs policy issue, with the dispute ending in a “press war”.
At the second party congress on January 19, 1913, other dissatisfied representatives of the Christian Socialists also took part. Thereupon the Lower Austrian MP August Maria Kemetter and the Bukovinian MP Eduard Hruschka from Styria joined the party. On January 28, 1913, the four members of parliament founded the “Club of the Independent Christian People's Party of the Germans in Austria”. This was renamed on May 16, 1913 just like the party in "German Center".
The German Center had a Christian national orientation. In January 1914, the entire German Agrarian Party of Styria joined the German Center at the party congress in St. Michael . The members of the German Center were subsequently members of the German National Association or the Association of German National Parties . The Deutsche Zeitung , founded in 1914, served as the party organ . On October 7, 1918, Pantz and Neunteufel founded together with the Reichsrat members Michael Brandl (German Agrarian) and Gustav Hummer ( German Radical Party ) the “German-Austrian Independence Party”, which was renamed the National Democratic Party (Pantz Party) on November 23, 1918 .
literature
- Alexander Haas: The forgotten farmers' party. The Steirischer Landbund and its influence on Austrian politics 1918–1934. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7020-0885-3 .
- Lothar Höbelt : Cornflower and Imperial Eagle. The German freedom parties of Old Austria 1882–1918 . Vienna, Munich 1993.
Web links
- Ferdinand Reichsritter von Pantz in the lexicon of the Austrian Cartel Association
Individual evidence
- ^ German Austria, get up !. In: Deutsche Zeitung , October 13, 1918, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ National Democratic. In: Deutsche Zeitung , December 1, 1918, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).