Freedom of German

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Freedom of the German language was a political trend in Austria from the end of the 19th century to the First World War . The most important goal of this bourgeois movement was the unification of the parts of Austria that were formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire or the German Confederation with the German Empire (see also German Austria ).

history

Initially, the German Freedom Party was mainly organized in the German Liberal Party , from which, after its decline in 1879, various German-national , German- liberal and “ old liberal ” parties and organizations emerged. A few years passed before German freedom parties were founded ( see also: German Freedom Party ). The German School Association (DSchV), founded in 1880 , therefore became a gathering place primarily for German-free, but also German-national circles.

The German Freedom Party finally merged into the Greater German People's Party and, after 1945, into the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).

Important representatives

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literature

  • Lothar Höbelt : Cornflower and Imperial Eagle. The German freedom parties of Old Austria 1882–1918. Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7028-0320-3 .
  • Lothar Höbelt: “The German freedom of Austria. Civil politics under the conditions of a multiethnic Catholic state. ”In: Dieter Langewiesche (Ed.): Liberalism in the 19th century. Germany in a European comparison . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35741-9 , pp. 161-171.
  • Harald Lönnecker : From “Ghibellinia is going, Germania is coming!” To “People want to be people!” - mentalities, structures and organizations in the Prague student body 1866–1914. In: Sudetendeutsches Archiv München (Ed.): Yearbook for Sudeten German museums and archives 1995–2001 , Munich 2001, pp. 34–77. Digitized version ( memento from November 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 212 kB)

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