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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Predicate Object
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