Deutscher Verband

Deutscher Verband

German Association
Deutscher Verband German Association
Founded	1919
Dissolved	1926
Merger of	Tiroler Volkspartei; Deutschfreiheitliche Partei
Succeeded by	South Tyrolean People's Party; (not legal successor)
Ideology	German-speaking; minority interests; Regionalism; Autonomism; Conservatism; Christian democracy (minority); German nationalism (minority); National liberalism (minority)
Political position	Right-wing
National affiliation	Lists of Slavs and Germans
	Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol; Political parties; Elections;

The Deutscher Verband was a coalition of bourgeois German-speaking political parties that was formed in South Tyrol in 1919 after the region was annexed by Italy. It was a merger of the Catholic Tiroler Volkspartei and the national liberal Deutschfreiheitliche Partei. The German-speaking Social Democrats, for their part, joined with the Italian Socialist Party.^[1]

At the 1921 Italian general election the coalition won 90% of the vote and elected all four of the deputies that were allotted to the region. The first leader of the Deutscher Verband was .^[2] In 1923 he was replaced by the lawyer . The most important press organ of the DV, until its prohibition, was the (after 1923, ).^[3]

The DV as banned along with the rest of the non-Fascist parties in 1926. After 1945, the political tradition of the DV was continued by the South Tyrolean People's Party, which had the same leaders, and also used the edelweiss as its election symbol.

References[]

^ Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970), in: Geschichte des Landes Tirol. Band 4/2. Athesia, Bozen 1988
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2017-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Stefan Lechner (2012), "Die Erste Option: die Vergabe der italienischen Staatsbürgerschaft an die Südtiroler in Folge der Annexion 1920", in ; Stephanie Risse; (eds.), Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung. Festschrift für Hans Heiss, Cittadini innanzi tutto (in German), Wien-Bozen: Folio Verlag, pp. 219–236 (p. 223), ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4

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[1] Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970), in: Geschichte des Landes Tirol. Band 4/2. Athesia, Bozen 1988

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2017-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] Stefan Lechner (2012), "Die Erste Option: die Vergabe der italienischen Staatsbürgerschaft an die Südtiroler in Folge der Annexion 1920", in ; Stephanie Risse; (eds.), Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung. Festschrift für Hans Heiss, Cittadini innanzi tutto (in German), Wien-Bozen: Folio Verlag, pp. 219–236 (p. 223), ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4

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