Catholic Volksbund

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The Katholische Volksbund was an organization of Austrian Catholics established in 1905 .

history

On the 5th Austrian Catholic Day, which took place in Vienna in October 1905 , a central committee was set up as a non-political central organization for Austrian Catholics. One of the founders of this committee was the professor and councilor Josef Plöchl (1861–1925). In 1908, the committee was given the nickname Katholischer Volksbund , under which it was mainly known from then on. Furthermore, following the 5th Austrian Catholic Day, the so-called Piusverein Austria was launched to strengthen the Catholic press . In addition to the Jesuit priest Viktor Kolb (1856–1928) , the founders were Eduard Michl , who died just three weeks after Kolb at the age of 76 († 1928).

After the Catholic Volksbund and the Piusverein had already worked closely together in the past (the Piusverein already had around 1,000 local groups in the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary by the outbreak of World War I ), both organizations united in 1919 to form the Volksbund der Katholiken Österreichs - United Pius Association and Catholic Volksbund .

In 1929 the Catholic Volksbund, with the Christian Social Party as publisher, founded the so-called Kleine Volksblatt , a counterpart to the SDAP's Kleiner Blatt . The Kleine Volksblatt had a daily circulation of 92,000 and was next to the Wiener Kirchenzeitung (weekly circulation : 250,000 copies) the largest of the then many journalistic media of Austrian Catholicism.

At the beginning of the 1930s there were still 219 Catholic associations in Austria, all of which were organized in the two umbrella organizations Katholische Aktion (founded by Pope Pius XI. In 1922) and the Volksbund der Katholiken .

As the Volksbund of Catholics of Austria , the organization remained until the annexation of Austria in 1938 and was subsequently dissolved.

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  1. ↑ Catholic adult education at adulteducation.at, accessed on October 22, 2019
  2. ↑ Michael Polgar: 100 years of K.Ö.ST.V. Kürnberg 1900–2000 . Self-published, Rohrbach 2000, p. 211 .
  3. ↑ Daily report. (...) deaths. In:  Reichspost , No. 331/1928 (XXXVth year), November 28, 1928, p. 4, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.