Cherry rumble
Kirschenrummel is a trivializing term for a hunger revolt on June 7, 1920 in Graz .
With the increase in material hardship after the end of the First World War , the events in Graz escalated. The main reason for the uprising on June 7, 1920 were increased market prices, especially the cherry prices, which is why women at Kaiser-Josef-Platz came together to protest against the prices. The women went from stand to stand, asked for affordable prices and left a shattered marketplace. Then they moved on to Jakominiplatz , where more and more people joined the protest movement. The arriving executive was pelted with stones, which led to the use of sabers and bayonets by the executive and claimed the first injuries. According to newspaper reports, in the meantime the women who had started the protest withdrew, and the group continued towards Annenstrasse with anti-Semitic slogans and attacks .
A price reduction commission demanded by the women was then guaranteed by a price regulation commission: from June 12, 1920, market prices were set and offenders had to expect a penalty.
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Mayer : Graz from the war to the Anschluss. In: DiePresse.com . November 2, 2018, accessed April 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Robert Engele: Not only the cherries were blood red. In: Austria Forum . 2012, accessed April 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Ludmilla Reisinger: artist Eva Ursprung on feminism in the Annenviertel. In: annenpost.at. November 14, 2017, accessed April 3, 2019 .