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Fatherland Front (Austria)

Political party in Austria (1933–1938)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Fatherland Front was the ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria. It claimed to be a nonpartisan movement, and aimed to unite all the people of Austria, overcoming political and social divisions. Established on 20 May 1933 by Christian Social Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss as the only legally permitted party in the country, it was aligned with the Catholic Church, and did not advocate any racial ideology. A right-wing conservative, authoritarian, nationalist, corporatist, and Catholic organisation, it advocated independence from Germany on the basis of protecting Austria's Catholic religious identity from what they considered a Protestant-dominated German state.

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The public source identifies “Fatherland Front (Austria)” as political party in Austria (1933–1938). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fatherland, Front and Austria.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fatherland Front (Austria)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.