True Mouth Affair
The Wahrmund affair is a period of partly violent clashes in Austria , here mainly on academic soil and in the province of Tyrol, triggered in 1908 by a lecture by the liberal Innsbruck lawyer Ludwig Wahrmund .
history
Influenced by the Kulturkampf in the German Reich and the Los-von-Rom movement carried out by German national forces, the affair sparked off on January 18, 1908, in the Innsbruck city hall of the speech “Catholic worldview and free science”. A short time later, Wahrmund published this speech as a brochure, in which he used sharp-tongued attacks to demand the independence of scientific activity from the influence of religion, especially the Catholic Church.
The Catholic clergy immediately demanded his rejection, the majority of the University of Innsbruck backed Wahrmund. The affair was carried into the country with the use of anti-Semitic propaganda against the " Jewish parent " Wahrmund and caused concerted resentment in Tyrol . After a general strike by numerous academic institutions and the intervention of Emperor Franz Joseph I , things were only smoothed out by the transfer of Wahrmund to Charles University in Prague in mid-1908.
The student unrest at several universities in Austria that followed the Wahrmund affair contributed to consolidating the rivalry between the Catholic and national-liberal camps in Austria's politics (at least on academic grounds), which has continued to the present day.
See also
literature
- Gerhard Hartmann, The CV in Austria - its origin, its history, its meaning . 3rd edition, Lahn-Verlag, Limburg-Kevelaer 2001, pp. 45–51, ISBN 3-7840-3229-X .
- Rudolf von Albertini: Handbook of European History . Klett-Cotta 1968, ISBN 3-800211114 , p. 385 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
- Hermann JW Kuprian: “Put an end to this scandal. Your rectors are a nice company. ”Discussion of modernism, cultural struggle and freedom of science: the Wahrmund affair 1907/08. In: Michael Gehler , Hubert Sickinger (ed.): Political affairs and scandals in Austria. From Mayerling to Waldheim. Thauer-Wien-Munich 1995. ISBN 3-85400-005-7 , pp. 99-127.