Slovak National Party (historical)

The Slovak National Party (Slovak Slovenská Národná strana, SNS) was a conservative and nationalist Slovak party in the Kingdom of Hungary and the first Czechoslovak Republic in the years 1871-1938. Today's Slovak National Party is not a legal one, but sees itself as an ideological successor of the party.

History of the Party

The SNS was built in the 1870s as a national party that the struggle for the emancipation of the Slovaks in the Kingdom of Hungary devoted himself after the fall of neo-absolutism in the Empire of Austria. As a template for the party program was in 1861 proclaimed Memorandum národa Slovenského (Memorandum of the Slovak Nation ).

Until 1901, the party held a passive policy. As of this year, she was more active and imagined cultural and linguistic demands of the Slovaks. On 30 October 1918, it participated in the establishment of the short existing Slovak National Council, which lobbied for the declaration of Martin and thus integration of Slovakia newly established Czechoslovakia.

However, in Czechoslovakia, she got more into the background before they 1938 united with the Slovak Hlinka People's Party.

Prominent members

  • Pavol Blaho
  • Martin Čulen
  • Štefan Marko Daxner
  • Matus Dula
  • Ján Francisci - Rimavský
  • Jozef Gregor Tajovský
  • Andrej Hlinka
  • Milan Hodža
  • Svetozár Hurban - Vajanský
  • Karol Anton Medvecký
  • Ján Tóth Paulíny -
  • Viliam Pauliny - Tóth
  • Martin Rázus
  • Emil Stodola
  • Vavro Šrobár
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