Independent farmers' union

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The Independent Farmers Association ( UBB , also: Independent Farmers Association of the Vorarlberger Oberland or Vorarlberger Independent Farmers Association , VUBB ), was an interest group of farmers and a farmers' party in Vorarlberg during the First Republic of Austria . The advocacy group and party founded in 1919 was free-spirited, liberal and also geared towards preserving tradition and was in part in opposition to the Catholic farmers' union founded in 1919 . The Independent Farmers 'Union saw itself primarily as a representative of the farmers' interests. His main focus was in the Bludenz district .

history

The Independent Farmers 'Union, founded in 1919, joined the German-Austrian Farmers' Party founded in June 1920 .

On November 20, 1920, in a demonstration by around 2000 people in Bludenz, the release of Christian Stoss ( community leader of Nenzing and member of the UBB) was demanded. He had been arrested on November 17, 1920 on the basis of a previous judgment for allegedly illegitimate purchase of butter and incitement to breach the butter delivery regulations. As early as November 18, 1920, around 200 farmers in Montafon had requested the release of Josef Mathies (community representative in Schruns ) and Alwin Juen before the district court in Schruns, who had also been in custody since November 17, 1920 for the same reasons as Christian Stoss . All three were in custody in Bludenz's district court from November 18. Due to the protests, all three were released on November 20, 1920 on bail of 50,000 kroner - against the express will of the Vorarlberg state government under Otto Ender . With this protest, the UBB opposed the interests of the Vorarlberg state government. The district captain of Bludenz was deposed by the Vorarlberg state government, brought before a disciplinary court and sentenced. The peasants, who wanted to free them after a new arrest of Stoss, Mathies and Juen, were driven out of Bludenz by force of arms. Due to this peasant unrest, however, the Vorarlberg state government lifted the forced farming of agricultural products, which can be seen as a major political success of the UBB.

A merger of the UBB with the Catholic-oriented Vorarlberger Bauernbund , which is politically very close to the Christian Social People's Party , was repeatedly discussed but rejected. In 1922, the UBB merged with the Landbund , which, however, had a German national and anti - Semitic orientation, advocated joining the German Reich , and committed itself to anti-Marxism and the concept of the estates . Jakob Moosbrugger and others therefore left the UBB in 1922.

In March 1927 the Vorarlberger Landbund dissolved and merged with the Christian-social Vorarlberger Bauernbund to form the Christian- social Vorarlberger Landesbauernbund , although the Landbund still existed as a political organization.

Electoral successes

The Independent Farmers 'Party (UBB) as the political arm of the Independent Farmers' Union ran with members in the first Vorarlberg state elections for the Republic of German-Austria in 1919, but only in the Bludenz district . The UBB received 2166 votes (3.5%).

Franz Josef Wachter , professional representative for the Montafon stand from 1919 to 1938 , was a member of the state parliament for the Independent Farmers' Union from 1919 to 1923.

Organ of publication

The Independent Farmers 'Union had its own publication, the farmers' sheet . The editor of the paper was Jakob Moosbrugger, the son of Kaspar Moosbrugger . The Landbund published the Bauernblatt from 1919 to 1923 , which appeared as the Vorarlberger Landbund from 1924 to 1927 .

After 1927 there was the Vorarlberger Landstimmen, organ of the united Vorarlberg farmers' associations .

literature

  • Bernd Vogel: German nationalism in Vorarlberg was the “Greens” of the interwar period . Roderer, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89783-817-8 .
  • Robert Kriechbaumer : The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945 (=  series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg . Volume 12 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99400-0 , p. 494-544 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Dreier: Between Kaiser and 'Führer' - Vorarlberg in transition 1918–1938 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1986, ISBN 3-900438-18-8 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ a b Robert Kriechbaumer (ed.): This Austria save , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-205-77378-0 , p. 109 (google books).
  3. ↑ Werner Dreier: Between Kaiser and 'Führer' - Vorarlberg in transition 1918–1938 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1986, ISBN 3-900438-18-8 , pp. 73 ff.
  4. ^ A b Meinrad Pichler: Das Land Vorarlberg 1861 to 2015: History of Vorarlberg. Volume 3. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0913-6 , p. 159 (google books).
  5. ^ Meinrad Pichler: Das Land Vorarlberg 1861 to 2015: History of Vorarlberg . Volume 3. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0913-6 , p. 160.
  6. ↑ a b c d Werner Dreier: Between Kaiser and 'Führer' - Vorarlberg in upheaval 1918–1938 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1986, ISBN 3-900438-18-8 , p. 75 ff.
  7. ↑ Unity in the peasant class. In:  Der Vorarlberger , March 27, 1927, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / vbd.
  8. ↑ Peter Bußjäger: What is the Montafon stand? In: Verba volant. No. 61 of February 2, 2009 (PDF; 157 kB).
  9. ^ Vorarlberger Landesarchiv: 200 years of community organization in Vorarlberg. Bregenz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902622-10-5 , p. 103 (PDF; 7.24 MB).
  10. ↑ The Bauern-Blatt, a weekly publication of the Independent Farmers' Union of the Vorarlberger Oberland , was produced in Bludenz by Dworzak from 1919.
  11. ↑ The Vorarlberger Landbund, weekly journal of the Vorarlberger Landbund , was published by the Vorarlberger Landbund as owner and publisher in Feldkirch and printed by Graff. The following publication was: The Landbündler for Tyrol and Vorarlberg .
  12. ↑ Werner Dreier: Between Kaiser and 'Führer' - Vorarlberg in transition 1918–1938 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1986, ISBN 3-900438-18-8 , p. 174.
  13. ^ Printed by J. Teutsch in Bregenz from 1927.