Liechtenstein Homeland

The Liechtenstein home service ( LHD) was a political movement that was against the party-state and advocated the conversion of Liechtenstein in a corporate state. However, during the period of its existence the home service remained relatively unsuccessful and was able to win only a small part of the population itself.

History

The Liechtenstein home service was established on 1 October 1933 Vaduz and was partly inspired by the Vorarlberg home service and the Vorarlberg Home Guard. The emergence in the 1930s in Vorarlberg and Austria all ideas of the corporate state so that also had an impact on Liechtenstein. By the end of 1933 left party president Eugen sheep Hauser, who had also been the driving force behind the creation of Liechtenstein home service, and some other of the 15 founding members of the home service, as this increasingly turned Nazi and anti-Semitic ideas. Though the home ministry was inspired by the Vorarlberg organizations and took some ideas he had more in common with the Swiss Front movement.

On December 9, 1934 held supporters of home service from a larger demonstration in Vaduz and demanded the resignation of the government and new elections.

Early 1935 began the home service with the Christian Social People's Party ( VP) to work together. As a "national opposition" they tried to replace it by proportional representation, the previous Majorzverfahren in the state elections. Beginning in January 1936 merged the home service with the significantly stronger members of the People's Party Patriotic Union ( VU). While it is now taking in the party newly created some former senior members of the home service, such as, but Otto Schaedler or Alois Vogt, succeeded in important positions, the political views of the home service could not prevail. The program of the People's Party was based largely on the People's Party.

Some disillusioned former members of the home ministry were later active in the ethnic German movement in Liechtenstein.

Organization

Originally founded by 15 men, possessed of home service throughout its existence up to 300 members. Approximately 200 of these belonged to the " shock troops ", a existed within the home service Jungmann organization to. The assault group was based in gesture and symbolism of the Sturmabteilung ( SA), the Nazi Party.

From October 14, 1933, two weeks after its founding until 1935, the home service published a separate, one-to biweekly, newspaper with the name " Liechtenstein home service. Voice for local business, culture and folklore. "

Historical review

As a starting point for the creation of the home service is the one the party disaffection in the 1930s, caused among other things by disagreement between the existing parties, the Savings Bank affair and the generally poor economic situation, on the other hand from abroad considered coming political ideas. Contemporary VP- politician gave the electoral reform of 1932, in their opinion, a strongly adverse election law, complicit in the creation of Liechtenstein home service.

The home service extended until then consisting of two parties political landscape Liechtenstein and provided as a second opposition party and its opposition to the existing order gesture for further political unrest. Through its cooperation and subsequent association with the People's Party, he changed the political landscape to change. At the same time it was not possible the home service, society and political system neuzugestalten as desired. To this end the confess since 1918, parties were already too deeply rooted in the population. Rather, the home service was, unlike founded in June 1933 local NSDAP Liechtenstein, the first expression of a genuine Liechtenstein movement, which later continued in the ethnic German movement.