Pius Association of Austria

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The Piusverein to promote the Catholic press in Austria was an association founded in 1905 to strengthen the Catholic press .

history

The Piusverein was founded following the fifth General Austrian Catholic Day (October 1905 in Vienna, Sofiensaal ) following an appeal by the Jesuit father Viktor Kolb (1856–1928). Co-founder was Eduard Michl , who died just three weeks after Kolb († 1928; age: 76).

Analogous to the political division of the Austrian Catholics into Conservatives and Christian Socials, two wings were formed in the Pius Association, but they worked closely together.

By the outbreak of World War I , the number of local groups of the Piusverein in the Austrian half of the empire had risen to around 1,000, and the number of members to around 150,000. There was an Italian section in Trieste and a Czech one in Prague . The members also included numerous clergymen who promoted the goals of the association in press sermons.

The association primarily served to raise funds for the Christian press through membership fees and donations. He promoted the conservative daily newspaper Vaterland and the Christian Social Reichspost , which z. B. in 1912 each received 45,000 crowns . About the same amount was spent on the Piusverein's press office, which as a press agency served around 50 local Catholic daily newspapers in Austria with correspondent reports from the Reich capital ( Piusverein correspondence ).

After the Catholic Volksbund and the Piusverein had already worked closely together in the past, the two organizations merged in 1919 to form the Volksbund der Katholiken Österreichs - United Piusverein and Catholic Volksbund . As the Volksbund of Catholics of Austria , the organization remained in existence until the annexation of Austria in 1938 and was subsequently dissolved.

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literature

  • Pope Pius X .:  Letter from the Holy Father on the matter of the Pius Association. In:  Salzburger Chronik für Stadt und Land / Salzburger Chronik / Salzburger Chronik. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Die Woche im Bild” / Die Woche im Bild. Illustrated entertainment supplement to the “Salzburger Chronik” / Salzburger Chronik. Daily newspaper with the illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische / Österreichische Woche” / Österreichische Woche / Salzburger Zeitung. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Austrian Week” / Salzburger Zeitung , No. 35/1906 (XLII. Year), February 13, 1906, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch.
  • Dominikus Dietrich: Agitators booklet of the Pius Association . St. Norbertus book and art print shop, Vienna 1910, OBV .
  • Lecture sketches about the press. For use by Pius club speakers . St. Norbertus book and art print shop, Vienna 1910, OBV .
  • Dominic Dietrich: Press sermons of the Pius Society . Issues 1, 3, 4. Verlag des Piusverein, Sl 1912, OBV .
  • f .:  P. Viktor Kolb †. Birth of the great press apostles in Austria. In:  Reichspost , No. 307/1928 (XXXV. Volume), November 3, 1928, p. 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  • Hartmuth Staffler: crook and "crooked nose". Christian social anti-Semitism in Tyrol using the example of the “Brixener Chronik” . Publication series of the Brixen History Association, Volume 3, ZDB -ID 2282919-2 . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2003, ISBN 88-88910-01-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daily report. (...) deaths. In:  Reichspost , No. 331/1928 (XXXVth year), November 28, 1928, p. 4, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.