Austrofascism

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Austrofascism was an authoritarian, nationalist, and corporatist political system that ruled Austria in the 1930s, characterized by its Catholic conservatism, suppression of democracy, and opposition to both Nazism and socialism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf authoritarian political system
far-right ideology
interwar political movement
alsoKnownAs Austrian corporate state
Ständestaat
basedOn Catholic social teaching
papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno
cameToPowerBy Austrian Civil War
surface form: Austrian Civil War of February 1934

dissolution of parliament in 1933
characteristic banning of opposition parties
censorship of the press
cult of the state and nation
strong role for the Catholic Church in public life
use of political imprisonment
constitution May Constitution of 1934
country Austria
created corporatist chambers representing professions and economic sectors
state-controlled labour front
distinguishedFrom German Nazism
Fascist Italy
surface form: Italian Fascism
endDate 1938
endedBy Anschluss of Austria
surface form: Anschluss
foreignPolicyGoal maintain Austrian independence from Nazi Germany
governmentForm Ständestaat (corporate state)
headOfState Wilhelm Miklas NERFINISHED
ideology Catholic conservatism
anti-Nazism
anti-communism
anti-liberalism
anti-parliamentarism
anti-socialism
authoritarianism
clerical fascism
corporatism
nationalism
keyLeader Engelbert Dollfuss
Kurt Schuschnigg
opposedBy Austrian Nazis
Austrian Social Democratic Party
surface form: Austrian Social Democrats

Austrian communists
politicalSystem one-party state
rulingParty Fatherland Front
stateReligionOrientation Roman Catholicism
supportedBy Austrian Catholic Church hierarchy
Freikorps soldiers
surface form: Heimwehr (right-wing paramilitary)
suppressed Austrian Nazi Party
Communist Party of Austria
Austrian Social Democratic Party
surface form: Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria

parliamentary democracy
trade unions
timePeriod 1933–1938

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Kurt Schuschnigg ideology Austrofascism
Austrian President suspendedDuring Austrofascism
this entity surface form: Austrofascism period (1934–1938)
Federal Constitutional Law of Austria suspendedDuring Austrofascism
this entity surface form: Austrofascist regime
Wilhelm Miklas significantEvent Austrofascism
this entity surface form: Austrofascist regime
Fatherland Front ideology Austrofascism
Engelbert Dollfuss ideology Austrofascism
Austrian Civil War mainBelligerent Austrofascism
this entity surface form: Austrofascist government of Austria
Austrian Civil War relatedTo Austrofascism