Christian Social Party (Austria)

Christian Social Party
Christlichsoziale Partei
FounderKarl Lueger
Founded1891/1893
Dissolved1934 (1934)
Merged intoFatherland Front
HeadquartersVienna, Austria
IdeologySocial conservatism[1]
Political Catholicism[1]
Austrian nationalism[2]
Antisemitism[3][4]
Right-wing populism[3]
Christian socialism[5]
Corporatism[1]
Monarchism (until 1918,
later factions)[6][7]
Political positionRight-wing[8]
ReligionRoman Catholicism

The Christian Social Party (German: Christlichsoziale Partei, CS or CSP) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and under the First Austrian Republic, from 1891 to 1934. The party was affiliated with Austrian nationalism that sought to keep Catholic Austria out of the State of Germany founded in 1871, which it viewed as Protestant and Prussian-dominated; it identified Austrians on the basis of their predominantly Catholic religious identity as opposed to the predominantly Protestant religious identity of the Prussians.[2]

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  3. ^ a b Payne, Stanley G. (1995), A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, p. 58
  4. ^ Pauley, Bruce F. (1992), From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 156–158
  5. ^ Boyer, John W. (1995), Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897–1918, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  6. ^ Leeb, Stefan (2019), Das katholisch-konservative Milieu und sein Verhältnis zum österreichischen Legitimismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit (1918–1938), pp. 24, 35–41
  7. ^ Horvath, Partick. "Der Bundespräsident und sein Einfluß auf die Regierungsbildung 1999 / 2000". Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  8. ^ Romsics, Gergely (2010). The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Right-wing Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918–1941. Social Science Monographs. p. 211.