Association of Catholic nobles in Austria

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The Association of Catholic Nobles in Austria was an association of Austrian nobles.

History and activity

Founded just before the beginning of the First World War, it did not start work until 1922 - despite the Nobility Repeal Act of 1919. The association was banned by the National Socialists in 1938 after the annexation of Austria .

According to the statutes, the purpose was, among other things, to cultivate aristocratic attitudes and to promote Catholic convictions. Another objective was the creation of a register for families entitled to hold a nobility title until the Austrian Nobility Repeal Act came into force, as well as the support of economically weaker members.

Successor clubs

Various attempts to found a successor association failed since 1945 due to the application of this law.

St. Johanns Club

As an unofficial successor to the Association of Catholic Nobles in Austria , the St. Johanns Club was founded in 1954 under the patronage of the Order of Malta . However, this club cannot be viewed as an aristocratic association in the strict sense of the word, as it also includes non-aristocratic members (around a third of the 750 or so members).

Association of Nobles in Austria

In 2005, a group of younger members of the historical nobility managed to register an association under the name Vereinigung der Nobleute in Österreich  (VEÖ) with the Federal Police Directorate in Vienna , despite the forbidden use of nobility titles in the application for admission to the association authority, while maintaining almost identical statutes . A parliamentary request made on December 21, 2005 by members of the SPÖ was answered by the then Interior Minister Liese Prokop to the effect that both the founding statutes presented to the Federal Police Directorate in Vienna as well as an amendment to these met the legal requirements for associations.

Neither the founding of the association nor the amendment of the statutes could be prohibited, since the association authority has to check the legality exclusively on the basis of the statutes or amendments presented. Illegality outside of the statutes presented as well as "forecast decisions" based thereon, which lead to notices to be forbidden, are inadmissible according to the constant rulings of the highest court. Because of the nobility names used in the amendment of the statutes, a complaint was initiated under the Nobility Repeal Act. In the opinion of the association authority, in particular with the submitted election announcement from November 1, 2005, the actual activity of the association did not then correspond to the statutory requirements, with which the authority had initiated proceedings to dissolve the association.

Following a board decision in 2007, the association put its website offline. Since then there has been no website for the VEÖ. more. A new election announcement after the end of the term of office of the association bodies on December 31, 2012 does not appear in the central register of associations.

International

In 1987 Austria, a founding member, also left the Cilane networking association .

Individual evidence

  1. St. Johanns Club (sjc.at)
  2. cf. on this Georg Frölichsthal: The Austrian nobility since 1918. Lecture to the German Nobility Law Committee on September 13, 1997. First published in the Deutsches Adelsblatt , 36th year (1997) No. 11, pp. 284–287, especially 3. Organization of the Austrian nobility ( Updated version ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note on the website of the Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft Adler, adler-wien.at, accessed June 1, 2015); Prince Heinrich IV. Reuss jokingly called these people "half-nobles" (the mother is noble) and the "ennobled" (the woman is noble) - quote. ibid. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adler-wien.at
  3. a b Association of Nobles in Austria (VEÖ) based in Vienna, ZVR number 330978344, date of creation June 18, 2004. ZVR query on July 21, 2014.
  4. ^ Litigation: Nobles of Today. In: DiePresse online, November 2, 2007 - Article about VEÖ.
  5. Parliamentary question 3742 / J-NR / 05, XXII. GP, dated December 21, 2005, regarding the approval of the VEÖ association by the BPD Vienna. Note: The wording is incorrect because clubs in Austria do not need to be approved. At most, as here, a notification will be issued inviting the association to begin its activities. In the event of non-approval, a prohibition notice is issued. The same applies in Germany, since clubs do not require a permit here and also only have to observe formalities if they want to register.