Social Political Party
The Social Political Party was a liberal party of social reformatic intellectuals founded in Vienna in 1896, which from 1896 to 1919 had greater political importance, especially in Vienna and Lower Austria .
The concerns of bourgeois social reform, equality before the law, equalization of social tensions, women's emancipation, etc., as represented in Great Britain by the Fabian Society , were also echoed in Austria. The "Wiener Fabier-Gesellschaft" was founded in 1893 and followed in 1896 by that of the Social Policy Party. The founding of the party by the Viennese Fabier (Austria) can also be seen as an attempt to renew the liberal camp against the onslaught of Karl Lueger's Christian Socialists who were fighting for political power in Vienna with massive anti-Semitic slogans . Despite an impressive start with a large electoral meeting in the great hall of the Wiener Musikverein on October 28, 1896, the new party was never able to prevail in the emerging age of mass parties and remained respected or (because of its anti-clericalism ) rudely fought notables party . Well-known representatives of the Social Political Party were among others the economist Eugen von Philippovich , the women's rights activists Auguste Fickert , Ernestine von Fürth and Marianne Hainisch , the philosopher Popper-Lynkeus and Ferdinand Kronawetter . The well-known Fabier Engelbert Pernerstorfer , on the other hand, decided in 1896 for a candidacy on the part of the Social Democrats .
In the First Republic, Michael Hainisch , who came from the Social Policy Party, served as the highly respected Federal President for eight years .
literature
- Eva Holleis: The sociopolitical party. Social liberal efforts in Vienna around 1900 , Munich 1978