Liberalism in Austria
The German Liberal Party was a bourgeois political party in the Danube monarchy. Their outstanding personalities who participated in the Revolution of 1848 or influenced by this.
Background
The policy of the German Liberals was marked by opposition to Catholic clergy ( Kulturkampf ) and due to their demand, the German -speaking population as part of the German nation in a German state sum ( Greater German solution), founded by a conflict with the Slavs, the most by disputes was marked by the acquis. The greatest encouragement received the German liberals of the urban intelligentsia who feared a preponderance of the Slavic peoples in the monarchy.
Between 1867 and 1879 presented the party's majority in the House and dominated several governments. Instrumental in the German Liberal Party was on the abrogation of the Concordat in 1855 and to the adoption of the Constitution in December on December 21, 1867, which made the " dual monarchy " of Austria- Hungary with the Austro- Hungarian Compromise of the Austrian multi-ethnic state.
The ongoing fight against political Catholicism and the Slavic nationalities of the monarchy led together with the economic crisis of 1873 to the demise of the party and the loss of government power. The party was split into several parts, from which subsequently developed several German and German national liberal parties. The remaining followers were later called " Old Liberals ".
Known members
- Karl von Auersperg
- Johann Nepomuk Berger
- Rudolf Brestel
- Carl Giskra
- Leopold Hasner of Artha
- Eduard autumn
- Ignaz von Plener
- Eduard Taaffe
- Constantin Tomaszczuk