Andreas-Hofer-Bund Tirol
The Andreas-Hofer-Bund Tirol (AHBT) was founded as the Tiroler Volksbund in Innsbruck in 1905 as a German national association of representatives of all parties at the time except the Social Democrats and renamed the Andreas-Hofer-Bund Tirol in 1919. The Tyrolean Volksbund held the so-called Sterzing People's Day in Sterzing on May 9, 1918 , at which an expansionist 14-point program was passed, which demanded, among other things: "against Italy, natural borders that better protect Tyrol and Austria and old German settlements [... ] divide up to Austria ”, that is, the move forward of the border to the southern tip of Lake Garda and border corrections to include German settlement islands in Trentino . The Volksbund also considered a partial evacuation of the Trentino and the settlement of German soldiers.
During the time of Italian fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, the federal government worked closely with the German School Association when it was necessary to finance secret German teaching in South Tyrol ( catacomb school ).
In 1938 the National Socialists (NSDAP) were forced to dissolve . On August 15, 1994, the federal government was re-established.
Goal setting
According to its own statement, the federal government aims to “ cultivate the memory of Andreas Hofer , who has stood up for the whole of Tyrol in his life and work”. The statutes of the federal government say: “With democratic means, perseverance and consistency should be used for the unity and freedom of Tyrol. Here, human rights, with special consideration of the right to self-determination, should form the basis for South Tyrol. For fascism and Nazism as the greatest enemies of Tyrol, although this is often claimed by its opponents, there is no place in the AHBT. "
Umpires
Its chairmen were:
- 1919 Heinrich von Schullern (founding chairman)
- 1921 Ferdinand Kogler
- 1925 Walter Pembaur
- 1925 Emil Klebelsberger
- 1925 Hans Lederer
- 1928 Walter Pembaur
- 1931 Alois Dollinger
- 1934 Franz Kolb
- 1935 Eduard Reut-Nicolussi
- (had to resign under pressure from the Austrofascist government and at the request of Italy)
- 1937 Oskar von Hohenbruck
After the start-up:
- 1994 Josef Felder
- since October 15, 2012 Winfried Matuella
- since 2019 Alois Wechselberger
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Steininger : 1918/1919. The division of Tyrol . In: Georg Grote , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915-2015 . Peter Lang, Oxford-Bern-New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-0343-2240-9 , pp. 3–25, here: pp. 14–15 .
- ^ Hans Haas: South Tyrol 1919 . In: Anton Pelinka , Andreas Maislinger (ed.): Handbook for the modern history of Tyrol. Volume 2: Contemporary History. Wagner, Innsbruck 1993. ISBN 3-7030-0259-X , p. 100.