Five guilder men
As a five-guilder Men or five guilders men were referred to the from the Cisleithanian approved in the third curia electoral reform of 1882 male voters of the Austrian half of the empire of the Hapsburg Dynasty .
background
With the lowering of the tax census from 10 guilders to five under Prime Minister Count Eduard Taaffe in 1882 (for the Reichsrat) and 1885 (at the municipal level in Vienna), broad strata of the lower middle class, small traders (grocers), craftsmen and tradespeople achieved this Suffrage. They provided the base and the core troops for the newly founded Christian Social Party of Karl Lueger , who had been very committed to lowering the census. The anti-industrial, anti-capitalist and anti-Semitic attitudes of these losers in modernization , threatened by overpowering competition, shaped the ideology of the party founded by Lueger for a long time, and Karl Lueger, as a talented demagogue, served the needs and fears of his proverbial “five guilder men”.
However, in keeping with the times, there were further extensions of the electoral law. Through the cisleithan electoral reform law of July 14, 1896, under Prime Minister Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, the minimum census was reduced to four guilders, and a new, general curia without a census was introduced. In 1907 there were even the first elections to the Reichsrat with universal equal male suffrage. At the Viennese community level, this would have meant the end of the dominance of the Christian Socialists in the Vienna city council. For this reason Lueger and his successors delayed a corresponding municipal electoral reform until the end of the Danube Monarchy.
literature
- Karl Ucakar : Democracy and suffrage in Austria - On the development of political participation and state legitimation politics. (= Austrian texts on social criticism. Volume 24.) Publishing house for social criticism , Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-900-35147-3 .
- Ilse Reiter: Gustav Harpner (1864-1924): from anarchist defender to lawyer for the republic. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78144-8 , ( online p. 23 ).
- Kurt Schubert: The Christian Social Antisemitism. in: The history of Austrian Jewry. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77700-7 , ( online, p. 93 ).
- John W. Boyer: The end of the liberals and the conquest of Vienna by the anti-Semites. in: Karl Lueger: (1844-1910). Christian social politics as a profession. Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78366-4 . ( online, p. 134. )
Web links
- Not all citizens were always allowed to vote on parlament.gv.at
- Development of electoral rights in Austria from 1848 to the present day on Demokratiezentrum.org
- Anita Winkler: Classless civil society? Or: The price for democracy on habsburger.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Ilse Reiter : Gustav Harpner (1864–1924): from anarchist defender to lawyer for the republic. Böhlau, Vienna 2008 p. 23.
- ↑ Municipal Council, Vienna. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- ↑ Robert Maximilian Ascher : The Shoe Meier. - Chapter nineteenth.
- ↑ The “Fünfguldenmänner” and a fifth curia, then universal suffrage for men on parlament.gv.at, accessed on November 30, 2014.