Ude Association

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The Ude Association (vulgo Ude Party ) was a small Austrian party that ran in the National Council election and two state elections in 1927.

In 1926, the priest and dean of the University of Graz, Johannes Ude, founded the Austrian Business Association , which campaigned against corruption and promoted thrift and justice. Ude brought the programmatic elements of housing and land reform , the garden city concept , currency policy , abstinence and abolitionism , animal welfare and pacifism to the association.

At the beginning of 1927, the business association formed the Udeverband, Federation against Corruption , which stood in the 1927 National Council election. Ude was first the top candidate, but had to withdraw his candidacy under pressure from his clerical superiors and also give up the chairmanship of the business association. In the corresponding letter from the Seckau Ordinariate , the then Vicar General Franz Oer took a clear position in favor of the Christian Social Party as the only Catholic party. After Ude's resignation, Peter Sturm headed the National Council list. In the election, more than 35,000 votes were cast for the Ude Association, but too few for a seat on the National Council. In the state elections in Styria in 1927 , however, the party won two seats. Ude's supporters also stood in the state elections in Carinthia in 1927 , but received only a few hundred votes and no mandate.

In 1930 the party joined the electoral alliance of the National Economic Bloc and the Land League and subsequently lost all importance. In 1933 the association was dissolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Anderwald: The brittle anti-Marxist front. Carinthian state election campaigns in the First Republic . In: Herbert Dachs, Herbert Dippelreiter, Franz Schausberger (eds.): Radical phrase, electoral alliances and continuities: Landtag election campaigns in Austria's federal states 1919 to 1932 (=  series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg . band 57 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-205-20498-5 , pp. 113 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Hartmann: Johannes Ude. ÖCV , December 11, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Farkas: Johannes Ude and the official church: Chronology and analysis of a conflict . In: Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv (Hrsg.): Communications of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv . tape 47 , 1997, pp. 259–262 ( online on the Landesarchiv website (PDF; 4.13 MB)).