Fatherland Front

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The Fatherland Front was an Austrian right-wing authoritarian political organization that served as the ruling party of the Austrofascist regime in the 1930s.

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Fatherland Front canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrofascist organization
political organization
ruling party
aimedTo unite Austrians above party lines
associatedWith Catholic Church in Austria
bannedOrganizations Austrian Nazi Party
Communist Party of Austria
Austrian Social Democratic Party
surface form: Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria
controlled Austrian Parliament
surface form: Austrian parliament

Austrian press
trade unions
country Austria
dissolved 1938
March 1938
dissolvedAfter Anschluss of Austria
surface form: Anschluss
foundedBy Austrian government of Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuss
governmentTypeSupported authoritarian corporatist state
headquartersLocation Vienna
historicalContext interwar period
ideology Austrofascism
clerical fascism
right-wing authoritarianism
implemented one-party constitution of 1934
inception 1933
May 1933
leader Engelbert Dollfuss
Kurt Schuschnigg
membershipType mass organization
officialLanguage German
opposed Marxism
Nazism
liberal democracy
paramilitaryWing Heimwehr
parentOrganization Austria
surface form: Federal State of Austria
politicalPosition far-right
politicalSystemRole single legal party
precededBy Christian Social Party
surface form: Christian Social Party (Austria)
promoted Catholic social teaching
corporatist state
region Central Europe
replaced multi-party parliamentary system in Austria
replacedBy Nazi Party
surface form: National Socialist German Workers' Party
servedAs ruling party of the Federal State of Austria
timePeriod 1930s
usedSymbol Kruckenkreuz
crucifix
youthWing Ostmärkische Sturmscharen

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Kurt Schuschnigg memberOfPoliticalParty Fatherland Front
Austrofascism rulingParty Fatherland Front