German radical party

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The German Radical Party (until 1907: Freialldeutsche Party ) was a German national party in Austria-Hungary . It was founded in 1902 as a split from the Pan-German Association and its focus was on the crown lands of Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia .

history

After the election success of the Pan-German Unification in the Reichsrat election in 1901 , there was a break between party leader Georg von Schönerer and the radical German nationalist Karl Hermann Wolf . While Schönerer placed his racist and anti-Semitic ideology at the center of his politics and took a massive stand against the House of Habsburg and the Catholic Church , for Wolf and many other supporters of the Pan-German Association, the German-Czech nationality conflict was in the foreground of the political dispute. There were also personal differences between Wolf and Schönerer. Wolf finally split off in 1902 with the newly founded Free German Party from the Pan-German Association, where he could count on the support of the German-speaking supporters of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia as well as on some of the Reichstag members of the Pan-German Association. For example, four of the five Moravian state parliament members also switched to the Free German Party.

While the Freialldeutsche continued to advocate a German-nationalist policy, the anti-Semitic stance was more subdued and the dismantling of the Habsburg monarchy was no longer openly called for. Rather, the Freialldeutsche saw themselves as representing the interests of the German-speaking people in the Habsburg Monarchy and therefore did not shy away from soliciting Jewish voices.

The Freialldeutsche Party always performed more successfully than the Pan-German Association in elections and, alongside the German Agrarian Party, developed into the strongest German party in Bohemia. After the election success of the Free Germans in the Reichsrat election in 1907 , the party renamed itself to the “German Radical Party” that same year. From 1910 she worked with other German national parties in the Reichsrat in the German National Association. In 1920 the German Radical Party was finally absorbed into the Greater German People's Party .

literature

  • Philipp Rohrbach: "Freialldeutsche Party (Austria)". In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Hostility to Jews in the past and present. 5. Organizations, institutions, movements. Berlin u. a. 2012, p. 257 f.
  • The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918. Volume VIII. Political Public and Civil Society. 1st subband. Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Vienna 2006