Referendums following the Treaty of Saint-Germain
The Treaty of Saint-Germain between Austria and the victorious powers of the First World War of 1919 provided for referendums to be held in several areas that had hitherto been Austrian , which would determine whether the areas belong to Austria or Yugoslavia or Hungary . This was regulated in Article 50 of the treaty. In detail, the following results were obtained:
Carinthia
A referendum was planned in southern Carinthia ; Without a vote, the Canal Valley Italy and the Miessal , Unterdrauburg and the municipality of Zealand (Kankertal) were added to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and are now part of Slovenia .
On October 10, 1920, a referendum took place in the border area of southern Carinthia , in which the Slovene-speaking ethnic group made up around 70% of the total population: 59.04% of all votes went to Austria.
Ödenburg and surroundings
In the referendum in Ödenburg and the surrounding area of December 1921, it was decided that the city of Ödenburg ( Hungarian Sopron ) and the surrounding villages would remain with Hungary . Austria's intention to make Ödenburg the capital of its new federal state Burgenland was thus obsolete .
Of the 27,069 eligible persons according to the Hungarian electoral lists, 24,063 exercised their right to vote, 502 votes were invalid: 15,338 had voted for Hungary and 8,223 for Austria. In Ödenburg itself 72.8% voted for Hungary, in the surrounding villages only 45.4%. Although Fertőrákos / Kroisbach, Ágfalva / Agendorf, Balf / Wolfs, Harka / Harkau and Sopronbánfalva / Wandorf had voted against Hungary, they still stayed with Hungary with Ödenburg.
literature
- John C. Swanson: The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921. A Success Story . In: East European Quarterly 34 (2000/2001), pp. 81-94.
- Hellwig Valentin : Defensive struggle and referendum in Carinthia 1918–1920. Myths and Facts . Archive of the Carinthian Labor Movement, Vienna 1993