Austrian Fatherland Front

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The Austrian Fatherland Front was an authoritarian, nationalist political organization that ruled Austria in the 1930s under the Austrofascist regime.

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instanceOf authoritarian movement
political organization
single-party organization
afterEvent banned Social Democratic Party and trade unions
aim to create a corporatist state
to oppose National Socialism in Austria
to suppress socialism and communism
constitutionInfluence inspired by Italian Fascist corporatism
country Austria
dissolutionCause Anschluss
dissolved 1938
foundedBy Austrian government of Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuss
governmentTypeSupported Federal State of Austria (Ständestaat)
headquartersLocation Vienna
historicalPeriod interwar period
ideology Austrofascism
authoritarianism
clerical fascism
nationalism
inception 1933
leader Engelbert Dollfuss
Kurt Schuschnigg
legalStatus sole legal political organization in Austria from 1934 to 1938
membershipPolicy formally open to all Austrians loyal to the regime
mergedOrganizations various conservative and nationalist groups in Austria
officialLanguage German
operatedIn Federal State of Austria
First Austrian Republic
opposedBy Austrian Nazis
Communist Party of Austria
Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria
paramilitaryWing Heimwehr (aligned and integrated elements)
linked to: Heimwehr
politicalPosition far-right
right-wing
politicalSystemImplemented corporatist state
one-party state
propagandaTheme Christian German Austria independent from Nazi Germany
religion Roman Catholicism
replaced multi-party parliamentary system of the First Austrian Republic
replacedBy Nazi Party structures in Austria
significantEvent Austrian Civil War of February 1934
linked to: Austrian Civil War
stateIdeologyRole official state movement of the Austrofascist regime
supportedBy Roman Catholic Church in Austria
territorialExtent entire territory of Austria before the Anschluss
usedSymbol Kruckenkreuz (cross potent)
linked to: Kruckenkreuz

crucifix
youthWing Ostmärkische Sturmscharen

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Austrian People's Party foundedAfter Austrian Fatherland Front
Heimwehr mergedInto Vaterländische Front (Fatherland Front)
linked to: Austrian Fatherland Front