Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Federal State of Austria

Index Federal State of Austria

The Federal State of Austria (Austrian German: Bundesstaat Österreich ; colloquially known as the Ständestaat, "Corporate State") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the clerico-fascist Fatherland Front. [1]

70 relations: Adolf Hitler, Anschluss, Antisemitism, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Assassination, Austria in the time of National Socialism, Austrian Armed Forces, Austrian Civil War, Austrian German, Austrian schilling, Authoritarianism, Axis powers, Benito Mussolini, Berchtesgaden, Berghof (residence), Berlin, Catholic Church, Catholic social teaching, Chancellor of Austria, Christian Social Party (Austria), Class conflict, Clerical fascism, Colloquialism, Communist Party of Austria, Constitution of Austria, Corporatism, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Engelbert Dollfuss, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Estado Novo (Portugal), Estates of the realm, Fatherland Front (Austria), Federal Chancellery (Austria), First Austrian Republic, Franz von Papen, German federal election, March 1933, German language, Great Depression, Heimwehr, Heldenplatz, Hossbach Memorandum, Hotel Schiff, Interior ministry, Italian Fascism, July Putsch, Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang, Karl Lueger, Karl Renner, Kurt Schuschnigg, Labour movement, ..., Liberalism, Linz, National Council (Austria), Nazi Party, Nevile Henderson, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, One-party state, Pope Pius XI, President of Austria, Quadragesimo anno, Republikanischer Schutzbund, Rome, Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Sei gesegnet ohne Ende, Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament, Social Democratic Party of Austria, Vienna, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Miklas. Expand index (20 more) »

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Adolf Hitler · See more »

Anschluss

Anschluss ('joining') refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Anschluss · See more »

Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Antisemitism · See more »

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (German:; 22 July 189216 October 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria for two days – from 11 to 13 March 1938 – before the Anschluss annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, signing the constitutional law as acting head of state upon the resignation of President Wilhelm Miklas.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Arthur Seyss-Inquart · See more »

Assassination

Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Assassination · See more »

Austria in the time of National Socialism

Austria in the time of National Socialism describes the period of Austrian history from March 12, 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany (the event is commonly known as Anschluss) until the end of World War II in 1945.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Austria in the time of National Socialism · See more »

Austrian Armed Forces

The Austrian Armed Forces (Bundesheer) are the military forces of the Republic of Austria and the main military organisation responsible for the national defense.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Austrian Armed Forces · See more »

Austrian Civil War

The Austrian Civil War (Österreichischer Bürgerkrieg), also known as the February Uprising (Februarkämpfe), is a term sometimes used for four days of skirmishes between socialists and the Austrian Army, between 12 February and 16 February 1934, in Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Austrian Civil War · See more »

Austrian German

Austrian German (Österreichisches Deutsch), Austrian Standard German, Standard Austrian German (Österreichisches Standarddeutsch) or Austrian High German (Österreichisches Hochdeutsch), is the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Austrian German · See more »

Austrian schilling

The Schilling (German: Österreichischer Schilling) was the currency of Austria from 1925 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1999, and the circulating currency until 2002.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Austrian schilling · See more »

Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Authoritarianism · See more »

Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Axis powers · See more »

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF).

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Benito Mussolini · See more »

Berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden is a municipality in the Bavarian Alps of southeastern Germany.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Berchtesgaden · See more »

Berghof (residence)

The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Berghof (residence) · See more »

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Berlin · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Catholic Church · See more »

Catholic social teaching

Catholic social teaching is the Catholic doctrines on matters of human dignity and common good in society.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Catholic social teaching · See more »

Chancellor of Austria

The Chancellor of Austria, officially the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (Bundeskanzler der Republik Österreich, sometimes shortened to Kanzler) is the head of government of the Austrian Republic.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Chancellor of Austria · See more »

Christian Social Party (Austria)

The Christian Social Party (Christlichsoziale Partei, CS) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and in the First Republic of Austria, from 1891 to 1934.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Christian Social Party (Austria) · See more »

Class conflict

Class conflict, frequently referred to as class warfare or class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Class conflict · See more »

Clerical fascism

Clerical fascism (also clero-fascism or clerico-fascism) is an ideology that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with clericalism.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Clerical fascism · See more »

Colloquialism

Everyday language, everyday speech, common parlance, informal language, colloquial language, general parlance, or vernacular (but this has other meanings too), is the most used variety of a language, which is usually employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Colloquialism · See more »

Communist Party of Austria

The Communist Party of Austria (Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ) is a communist party in Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Communist Party of Austria · See more »

Constitution of Austria

The Constitution of Austria (Österreichische Bundesverfassung) is the body of all constitutional law of the Republic of Austria on the federal level.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Constitution of Austria · See more »

Corporatism

Corporatism is the organization of a society by corporate groups and agricultural, labour, military or scientific syndicates and guilds on the basis of their common interests.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Corporatism · See more »

Edmund Glaise-Horstenau

Edmund Glaise-Horstenau (also known as Edmund Glaise von Horstenau; 27 February 1882 – 20 July 1946) was an Austrian officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, last Vice-Chancellor of Austria before the 1938 Anschluss, a military historian and archivist, and general in the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Edmund Glaise-Horstenau · See more »

Engelbert Dollfuss

Engelbert Dollfuss (Engelbert Dollfuß,; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Engelbert Dollfuss · See more »

Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg

Ernst Rüdiger Camillo Starhemberg (Eferding, 10 May 1899 – Schruns, 15 March 1956; His Serene Highness Ernst Rüdiger Camillo 6. Fürst von Starhemberg until the 1919 abolition of nobility) was an Austrian nationalist and conservative politician prior to World War II, a leader of the Heimwehr and later of the Christian Social Party/Fatherland Front.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg · See more »

Estado Novo (Portugal)

The Estado Novo ("New State"), or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933, which was considered fascist.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Estado Novo (Portugal) · See more »

Estates of the realm

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the medieval period to early modern Europe.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Estates of the realm · See more »

Fatherland Front (Austria)

The Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front, VF) was the ruling political organisation of "Austrofascism".

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Fatherland Front (Austria) · See more »

Federal Chancellery (Austria)

The Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt), abbreviated BKA, is a federal agency on cabinet-level, serving as the executive office of the Chancellor of Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Federal Chancellery (Austria) · See more »

First Austrian Republic

The First Austrian Republic (Republik Österreich) was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 10, 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I which ended the Habsburg rump state of Republic of German-Austria—and ended with the establishment of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria based upon a dictatorship of Engelbert Dollfuss and the Fatherland's Front in 1934.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and First Austrian Republic · See more »

Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen (29 October 18792 May 1969) was a German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Franz von Papen · See more »

German federal election, March 1933

Federal elections were held in Germany on 5 March 1933, after the Nazi seizure of power and just six days after the Reichstag fire.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and German federal election, March 1933 · See more »

German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and German language · See more »

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Great Depression · See more »

Heimwehr

The Heimwehr (Home Guard) or sometimes Heimatschutz (Homeland Protection) were a nationalist, initially paramilitary group operating within Austria during the 1920s and 1930s; they were similar in methods, organisation, and ideology to Germany's Freikorps.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Heimwehr · See more »

Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square) is a public space in front of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Heldenplatz · See more »

Hossbach Memorandum

The Hossbach Memorandum was the summary of a meeting on 5 November 1937 between German dictator Adolf Hitler and his military and foreign policy leadership in which Hitler's future expansionist policies were outlined.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Hossbach Memorandum · See more »

Hotel Schiff

The Hotel Schiff is a hotel in Linz.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Hotel Schiff · See more »

Interior ministry

An interior ministry (sometimes ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, emergency management, national security, registration, supervision of local governments, conduct of elections, public administration and immigration matters.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Interior ministry · See more »

Italian Fascism

Italian Fascism (fascismo italiano), also known simply as Fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Italian Fascism · See more »

July Putsch

The July Putsch was a failed coup d'état attempt against the Austrofascist regime by Austrian Nazis, which took place between 25 – 30 July 1934.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and July Putsch · See more »

Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang

Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang (3 September 1818 – 8 November 1890), a journalist, politician and Catholic social reformer, was one of the mentors of the Christian Social movement in Austria-Hungary.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang · See more »

Karl Lueger

Karl Lueger (24 October 1844 – 10 March 1910) was an Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and founder of the Austrian Christian Social Party.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Karl Lueger · See more »

Karl Renner

Karl Renner (14 December 1870 – 31 December 1950) was an Austrian politician of the Socialist Party.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Karl Renner · See more »

Kurt Schuschnigg

Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg (between his family's ennoblement in 1898 and the 1919 abolition of the Austrian nobility, he bore the title Edler von Schuschnigg;; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Kurt Schuschnigg · See more »

Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Labour movement · See more »

Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Liberalism · See more »

Linz

Linz (Linec) is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich).

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Linz · See more »

National Council (Austria)

The National Council (Nationalrat) is one of the two houses of the Austrian Parliament and is frequently referred to as the lower house.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and National Council (Austria) · See more »

Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and supported the ideology of Nazism.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Nazi Party · See more »

Nevile Henderson

Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson GCMG (10 June 1882 – 30 December 1942) was a British diplomat and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1939.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Nevile Henderson · See more »

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, "High Command of the Armed Forces") was the High Command of the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Oberkommando der Wehrmacht · See more »

One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of state in which one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and One-party state · See more »

Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI, (Pio XI) born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Pope Pius XI · See more »

President of Austria

The President of Austria, officially the Federal President of the Republic of Austria (Bundespräsident der Republik Österreich) is the head of state of the Austrian Republic.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and President of Austria · See more »

Quadragesimo anno

Quadragesimo anno (Latin for "In the 40th Year") is an encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI on 15 May 1931, 40 years after Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Quadragesimo anno · See more »

Republikanischer Schutzbund

The Republikanischer Schutzbund (Republican Protection League) was an Austrian paramilitary organization established in 1923 by the Social Democratic Party (SDAPÖ) to secure power in the face of rising political radicalization after World War I. It had a Czech section associated with the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in the Republic of Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Republikanischer Schutzbund · See more »

Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Rome · See more »

Second Italo-Ethiopian War

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war from 3 October 1935 until 1939, despite the Italian claim to have defeated Ethiopia by 5 May 1936, the date of the capture of Addis Ababa.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Second Italo-Ethiopian War · See more »

Sei gesegnet ohne Ende

"Sei gesegnet ohne Ende" (English translation: Be Blessed Without End), also known as the ″Kernstock-Hymne″, is a German language song that was the national anthem of Austria from 1929 until 1938.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Sei gesegnet ohne Ende · See more »

Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament

The "self-elimination of Parliament" (German: Selbstausschaltung des Parlaments) was an event that occurred in Austria on March 4, 1933, when all three presidents of the National Council resigned after irregularities occurred during a session concerning a strike by the railway workers.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament · See more »

Social Democratic Party of Austria

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a social-democratic political party in Austria and alongside the People's Party one of the two traditional major parties.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Social Democratic Party of Austria · See more »

Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Vienna · See more »

Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht (lit. "defence force")From wehren, "to defend" and Macht., "power, force".

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Wehrmacht · See more »

Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) in Nazi Germany during World War II.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Wilhelm Keitel · See more »

Wilhelm Miklas

Wilhelm Miklas (15 October 187220 March 1956) was an Austrian politician who served as the third President of Austria from 1928 until the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938.

New!!: Federal State of Austria and Wilhelm Miklas · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_State_of_Austria

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »