Deutscher Verband

The Deutscher Verband was a coalition of bourgeois German-speaking political parties that was formed in South Tyrol in 1919 after the region was annexed by Italy. It was a merger of the Catholic Tiroler Volkspartei and the national liberal Deutschfreiheitliche Partei. The German-speaking Social Democrats, for their part, joined with the Italian Socialist Party.[1]

Deutscher Verband

German Association
Founded1919
Dissolved1926
Merger ofTiroler Volkspartei
Deutschfreiheitliche Partei
Succeeded bySouth Tyrolean People's Party
(not legal successor)
IdeologyGerman-speaking
minority interests
Regionalism
Autonomism
Conservatism
Christian democracy (minority)
German nationalism (minority)
National liberalism (minority)
Political positionRight-wing
National affiliationLists of Slavs and Germans

At the 1921 Italian general election the coalition won 90% of the vote and elected all four of the deputies that were allotted to the region. The first leader of the Deutscher Verband was Eduard Reut-Nicolussi.[2] In 1923 he was replaced by the lawyer Karl Tinzl. The most important press organ of the DV, until its prohibition, was the Tiroler (after 1923, Der Landsmann).[3]

The DV as banned along with the rest of the non-Fascist parties in 1926. After 1945, the political tradition of the DV was continued by the South Tyrolean People's Party, which had the same leaders, and also used the edelweiss as its election symbol.

References
  1. Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970), in: Geschichte des Landes Tirol. Band 4/2. Athesia, Bozen 1988
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2017-07-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Stefan Lechner (2012), Hannes Obermair; Stephanie Risse; Carlo Romeo (eds.), "Die Erste Option: die Vergabe der italienischen Staatsbürgerschaft an die Südtiroler in Folge der Annexion 1920", Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung. Festschrift für Hans Heiss, Cittadini innanzi tutto (in German), Wien-Bozen: Folio Verlag, pp. 219–236, Bezug S. 223, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4
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