German Radical Party
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| name = German Radical Party
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| leader = Karl Hermann Wolf
| ideology = Pan-Germanism
German nationalism
Anti-slavic sentiment
Anti-clericalism
Moderate antisemitism
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| country = Austro-Hungary
| native_name = Deutschradikale Partei
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| founded = 1902
| dissolved = 1920
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| split = Pan-German League
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| merged = Greater German People's Party (Austria)
German National Party (Czechoslovakia)
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| position = Right-wing to Far-right
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| national = Deutscher Nationalverband
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The German Radical Party (German: Deutschradikale Partei), until 1907 the Free Pan-German Party{{Cite book |author=Helmut Walser Smith |title=German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870–1914 |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1995 |page=226}} (Freialldeutsche Partei), was a German nationalist political party in Austria-Hungary, active mainly in Bohemia.
History
After the electoral success of the Pan-German League (Alldeutsche Vereinigung) in the 1901 Imperial Council elections, there was a split between party leader Georg von Schönerer and the moderate Karl Hermann Wolf. Although von Schönerer placed racist and anti-Semitic ideology at the center of his politics and was strongly opposed to the Habsburg Monarchy and the Catholic Church, for Wolf and many other supporters of the Pan-German League, the German-Czech national conflict was the priority. In addition, there were personal disagreements between Wolf and von Schönerer. In 1902 Wolf finally broke away from the Pan-German League and founded the Free Pan-German Party, in which he could count on the support of German-speaking followers from Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia, as well as some Pan-German League deputies in the Imperial Council. For example, five members of the Moravian Regional Assembly joined the new party.
While the Free Pan-German Party continued to represent a völkisch polity of German nationality, their anti-Semitic attitude was more relaxed, and the destruction of the Habsburg monarchy was no longer openly demanded. Rather, the Free Pan-German Party saw itself as representing the interests of the German-speaking people in the Habsburg Monarchy, and therefore did not shy away from soliciting Jewish votes.
The Free Pan-German Party was always more successful in elections than the Pan-German League and, together with the German Agrarian Party, became the strongest pan-Germanist party in Bohemia. Following the electoral success of the Free Pan-German Party in the 1907 Imperial Council elections, the party changed its name to the "German Radical Party" that same year. From 1910 he worked with other German nationalist parties in the Reichsrat in the German National Association. In 1920 the German Radical Party finally merged into the Greater German People's Party.
References
- {{Cite book |author=Philipp Rohrbach |chapter=Freialldeutsche Partei (Österreich) |editor=Wolfgang Benz |title=Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart |volume=5. Organizationen, Institutionen, Bewegungen. |place=Berlin |year=2012 |pages=257–258}}
- {{Cite book |author=Helmut Rumpler |editor1=Adam Wandruszka |editor2=Peter Urbanitsch |title=Die Habsburgermonarchie, 1848–1918 |volume=8. Politische Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft. |chapter=Vereine, Parteien und Interessenverbände als Träger der politischen Partizipation |publisher=Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |place=Vienna |year=2006 |isbn=3-7001-3540-8}}.
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Category:Defunct political parties in Austria
Category:1902 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Category:Ethnic organizations based in Austria-Hungary
Category:German nationalist political parties
Category:German nationalism in Austria
Category:Nationalist parties in Austria