Verdinaso

Union of Dutch National Solidarists
Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen
LeaderJoris Van Severen
Founded6 October 1931; 93 years ago (6 October 1931)
Dissolved10 May 1941; 83 years ago (10 May 1941)
Merged intoEenheidsbeweging-VNV [nl]
HeadquartersIzegem, West Flanders
Youth wingJong Dinaso
Women's wingVerdivro
Paramilitary wingDinaso Militanten Orde
IdeologyNational Solidarism[1]
Political positionFar-right
Colours  Orange   White   Blue
Slogan"Dietschland en Orde"
(lit. 'Dietschland and Order')
Party flag

Verdinaso (Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen, lit. 'Union of Dutch National Solidarists'[8]), sometimes rendered as Dinaso,[9] was a small fascist political movement active in Belgium and, to a lesser extent, the Netherlands between 1931 and 1941.

Verdinaso was founded by Joris Van Severen, Jef François, Wies Moens, and Emiel Thiers on 6 October 1931 at a meeting in the Hôtel Richelieu in Ghent. It emerged from the Flemish Movement although, under Van Severen's leadership, it moved towards a novel authoritarian political ideology, which he referred to as National Solidarism. The organisation had initially called for the reunification of Flanders with the Netherlands in a Greater Netherlands (Dietschland) but discarded this ideal in 1934 in favour of a broader corporatist ideology calling for the establishment of a federated authoritarian polity on the model of the Burgundian Netherlands which would incorporate the whole of Belgium and possibly Luxembourg.[10] The party remained small but succeeded in attracting several young students and intellectuals inspired by Italian Fascism and Portugal's Estado Novo. It established a paramilitary wing in 1937, identified by its members' green shirts, known as the Dinaso Militant Order (Dinaso Militanten Orde).

Although Verdinaso never gained a mass following, its role in diminishing support for the established Flemish Front (Vlaamsche Front) at the 1929 elections led to the latter's decision to substantially reorganise itself in 1931 into the Flemish National League (Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond) and to shift its ideological mainstream away from democratic reform and pacificism towards right-wing authoritarianism.[11]

  1. ^ van Tienen, Paul (1958). Geschiedenis der conservatieve revolutie in Nederland (1st ed.). Scheveningen. ISBN 1-85973-274-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right, p. 402
  3. ^ Carsten, The Rise of Fascism, p. 208-9
  4. ^ Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right, p. 402
  5. ^ Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right, p. 402
  6. ^ Hans Rogger & Eugen Weber, The European Right: A Historical Profile, University of California Press, 1965, pp. 151-152
  7. ^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. ... fascist Italy ... developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932–1968) and Brazil (1937–1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933–1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
  8. ^ Kossmann 1978, p. 626.
  9. ^ Moore, Bob, ed. (2000). Resistance in Western Europe (1st ed.). Oxford: Berg. p. 267. ISBN 1-85973-274-7.
  10. ^ Kossmann 1978, pp. 639–40.
  11. ^ Kossmann 1978, p. 640.


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