Civic Workers' Party
The Civic Workers' Party or Civic Labour Party[1] (German: Bürgerliche Arbeitspartei) was a minor political party in Austria during the 1920s. It was led by former imperial foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, Ottokar Czernin.
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History
The only parliamentary election contested by the party was in 1920,[2] when the party was part of the Democratic Parties alliance alongside the Democrats and the Burgenland Citizens' and Farmers' Party.[3] The alliance won one seat, taken by Czernin of the Civic Workers' Party. Among the party's candidates were a number of women's rights activists, including Elise Richter, Marianne Hainisch and Helene Granitsch.[4]
After Czernin's retirement from politics in 1923, the party merged with the Democratic Party and Civic Freedom Party to form the Civic Democratic Labour Party (Bürgerlich-demokratische Arbeitspartei)[5] which received just 0.57% of the vote and failed to win a seat in the 1923 parliamentary election.
References
- Roszkowski, Wojciech; Kofman, Jan, eds. (2008). "Czernin, Ottokar". Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. M.E. Sharpe. p. 1948.
- Dieter Nohlen; Philip Stöver (2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. p. 203. ISBN 9783832956097.
- Dieter Nohlen; Philip Stöver (2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. p. 207. ISBN 9783832956097.
- Hauch, Gabriella (1995). "Frauenbewegungen – Frauen in der Politik". In Tálos, Emmerich; et al. (eds.). Handbuch des politischen Systems Österreichs: Erste Republik 1918-1938. Manz. p. 287.
- Nordsieck, Wolfram (2022). Parties and Elections in Austria and South Tyrol. p. 72.