!!!Landbund

Landbund, "Deutsche Bauernpartei" (German peasants´ party), 
political party founded in 1919 by liberal and Protestant peasants in 
Styria, Carinthia and Upper Austria; in favour of the Anschluss (union 
with Germany), anti-Marxist and corporative ideology; rejected the 
Heimwehr (para-military force); was part of the government from 1927 
until 1933. During this period the vice-chancellor and the minister of 
the interior came from this party (K.  Hartleb, V.  Schumy, F.  
Winkler). In 1930 it formed a political bloc for the elections with 
the German Nationalists, called "Nationalistischer Wirtschaftsblock" 
(Nationalist Economic Bloc). The party was dissolved in 1934. When the 
provisional government was formed in 1945, one seat was reserved for 
the Landbund but the party did not survive in the Second Republic.

!Literature
A. Wandruszka, Der Landbund in Oesterreich, in: K. 
Gollwitzer (ed.), Europ. Bauernparteien, 1977.


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