Party of National Unity (Czechoslovakia)

The Party of National Unity ( Czech Strana národní Jednoty ) was a Czech political party in incurred after the Munich Agreement Czecho- Slovak Republic. It consisted of the end of 1938-1939 and tended politically towards a nationally stressed authoritarian regime. It was headed by Rudolf Beran.

History

After the Munich Agreement and the forced exile of President Edvard Beneš in the now renamed Czecho- Slovak Republic Country created a political vacuum. In the Czech part of the country (Bohemia and Moravia - Silesia) this vacuum on November 22, 1938 filled under the so-called " simplification of the political system " with the union of all the bourgeois parties to the Party of National Unity. The core of the party formed the former Czechoslovak Agrarian Party Rudolf Beran. Furthermore, the commercial party, the National Democratic Party, the Catholic People's Party, part of the Czechoslovak People's Socialist Party and two small embossed fascist parties (National Football League and National Fascist Community ) joined. The new party sought to open a one-party system. On December 15, 1938, were the new Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha and the Czechoslovak Prime Minister and Chairman of the Party of National Unity, Rudolf Beran, left by an enabling act wide, barely controllable powers. The unions were brought into line and resolved self-government. After the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was officially banned, formed the Social Democrats together with the other part of the People's Socialist Party, the Party of National Labour, which should act as a " loyal opposition ". This paved the way to a dictatorship was mapped out. The party diversity was blamed on the " national defeat." The " rebirth " should be set by a uniform and strong leadership to the factory. The former leader of the People's Socialist Party Václav Klofáč, who had recommended the candidate for the Party of National Unity, now spoke of the need for an " authoritarian democracy ":

" Now no one is allowed to see something other than the bleeding people. At least for the next bad years, the parties should rise from the people. "

In the Czech part of the country of the Czecho - Slovak Republic, there should be only two parties, the Party of National Unity and the National Party of Labour.

The party program adopted on February 16, 1939 contained all the elements of a corporate corporative state and included in addition to the expected resolution of the already approved only symbolically single opposition party, the Party of National Work, anti-Semitic theories. The Slovak equivalent to the Party of National Unity was founded on November 8, Slovak Hlinka People's Party - Party of Slovak National Unity.

The Party of National Unity went to the military occupation of the Czech Republic and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in effect on the newly established Národní souručenství.

Swell

  • East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries - By Joachim von Puttkamer, page 92 (online)
  • Detlef Brandes: The Czechoslovak National Socialists. In: The first Czechoslovak Republic as a multinational party state. Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, pages 141 and 142 (online)
  • Vznik Strany národní Jednoty ( emergence of the Party of National Unity ) ( online) ( Czech)
  • Nový program Strany národní Jednoty ( New Program of the Party of National Unity ) ( online) ( Czech)
  • Rudolf Beran (online) ( Czech)
  • Www.chroniknet.de (online)
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