German Workers' Party (Austria-Hungary)
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German Workers' Party Deutsche Arbeiterpartei | |
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Abbreviation | DAP |
Founders | Karl Hermann Wolf[1] Ferdinand Burschofsky[2] |
Notable members | • Rudolf Jung[3][4] • Hans Knirsch[5] • Alfred Proksch[6] • Walter Riehl[7] |
Founded | 14 November 1903 Aussig, Bohemia[8] | ;
Dissolved | 5 May 1918 |
Preceded by | German-Political Workers' Association for Austria |
Succeeded by | • DNSAP (Austria)[9] • DNSAP (Czechoslovakia) |
Ideology | Pan-Germanism German nationalism Racial antisemitism Economic socialism[10] Anti-slavic sentiment Anti-Catholicism[11] |
Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
Electoral coalition | Deutscher Nationalverband |
Seats in the Reichsrat (1911) | 3 / 516 |
The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) in Austria-Hungary was the predecessor of the Austrian and Czechoslovak Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP), founded on 14 November 1903, in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), Bohemia. Its founders were , an earlier adherent of Georg von Schönerer, and .
The German Workers' Party sought to defend German interests in the Czech lands. Its party program was founded on Pan-Germanism, and was vehemently anti-Slavic, anti-Catholic, anti-Marxist and anti-capitalist.
In the elections for the Imperial Council in 1905 and 1911, the party obtained 3 seats. Hans Knirsch was chosen as parliamentary chairman in 1912. At the end of the First World War, Walter Riehl would take over as leader of Austrian part of the party, which would be renamed the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP). Concurrently, Hans Knirsch would take up the leadership of the Czechoslovak DNSAP, a forerunner of the Sudeten German National Socialist Party.
See also[]
- German Workers' Party (Germany)
References[]
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- ^ Liberty or Equality, Von Kuenhelt-Leddihn, Christendom Press, Front Royal, VA, 1993. pg 254.
- ^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 305
- ^ R.J.B. Bosworth, The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 441
- ^ Dirk Hänisch (1998), Die österreichischen NSDAP-Wähler: Eine empirische Analyse ihrer politischen Herkunft und ihres Sozialprofils, Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek 35 (in German), Wien / Köln / Weimar: Böhlau, p. 68, ISBN 3-205-98714-4
- ^ John T. Lauridsen, Nazism and the radical right in Austria, 1918-1934, 2007, p. 283
- ^ Andrew Gladding Whiteside, Austrian National Socialism before 1918, (1962), pp. 1–3
- ^ David Nicholls. Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. pp. 236–37.
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