Sudeten German Rural League

Sudetendeutscher Landbund ('Sudeten German Rural League', SdLB) was a Sudeten German political party in interwar Czechoslovakia. The party was founded in 1928, following a split in the Farmers' League.[1][2] The founding party congress was held in Brno on 25 March 1928.[3] The founders of SdLB had constituted the völkisch wing of the Farmers' League.[1] SdLB was a German nationalist farmers party, opposed to Czechoslovak statehood.[2] Georg Hanreich and Josef Mayer served as chairmen of the party.[2]

Sudeten German Rural League
Sudetendeutscher Landbund
LeaderJosef Mayer
Founded25 March 1928
Dissolved1935
Split fromFarmers' League
IdeologyGerman nationalism
Antisemitism
Agrarianism
Political positionFar-right

SdLB contested the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election in alliance with the German National Party.[2] Hanreich was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.[2] He was a member of the DNP parliamentary faction until 6 October 1933, after which he stayed as an independent.[2]

The party published the newspaper Sudetendeutscher Landbote from Brno.[2]

The party was dissolved in 1935.[2]

References
  1. Andreas Luh (1988). Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum. R. Olderbourg Verlag. p. 114. ISBN 9783486544312.
  2. Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei. Dokumentation Verlag. p. 277. ISBN 978-87-983829-3-5.
  3. Jörg Kracik (1999). Die Politik des deutschen Aktivismus in der Tschechoslowakei, 1920-1938. P. Lang. p. 239. ISBN 978-3-631-34672-3.
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