Ständestaat (corporate state)

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The Ständestaat (corporate state) was the authoritarian, corporatist political system established in Austria in the 1930s that organized society into state-controlled professional and social estates instead of democratic parties.

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instanceOf Austrofascist regime
authoritarian political system
corporatist state
abolishedInstitution Austrian Parliament
alsoKnownAs Austrofascist state
linked to: Austrofascism

Federal State of Austria (1934–1938)
appliesToTerritory First Austrian Republic
bannedPoliticalParty Austrian Nazi Party
Communist Party of Austria
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria
basedOn Catholic social teaching
corporatist theory
capital Vienna
constitutionalBasis May Constitution of 1934
country Austria
dissolutionCause Anschluss of Austria by Nazi Germany
economicSystem state‑directed corporatist economy
endTime 1938
foreignPolicyGoal preservation of Austrian independence from Nazi Germany
governmentType corporate state
one‑party state
hasPoliticalIdeology Austrian nationalism
Catholic corporatism
anti‑Marxism
anti‑liberalism
anti‑parliamentarism
authoritarianism
clerical fascism
hasTypeOfLaw emergency decrees rule
headOfGovernment Engelbert Dollfuß
Kurt Schuschnigg
headOfState Wilhelm Miklas
language German
legalForm Federal state
legislature Federal Council of State
officialReligion Roman Catholicism
opposedBy Austrian Nazis
Austrian Social Democrats
organizedSocietyAs state‑controlled professional estates
prohibited free trade unions
independent political parties
replacedBy Nazi German annexation of Austria
replaces First Austrian Republic
rulingParty Fatherland Front
significantEvent Austrian Civil War
February Uprising of 1934
linked to: February Uprising

July Putsch of 1934
linked to: July Putsch
startTime 1933
supportedBy Roman Catholic Church in Austria
usesSymbol Austrian eagle without Habsburg crown
crucifix

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Austrofascism governmentForm Ständestaat (corporate state)