:''"Landbund" may also refer to the

Agricultural League The Imperial Agricultural League (german: Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League was a German agrarian association during the Weimar Republic which was led by landowners with property east of the Elbe. It was allied with the German National Pe ...

, a former political party of Germany.'' The Landbund ( en, Rural Federation) was an

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during the period of the First Republic (1918–1934).

History

The Landbund was founded in 1919 as ''Deutschösterreichische Bauernpartei'' ("Party of German-Austrian Farmers") and represented liberal and

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farmers in Styria, Carinthia and

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. It endorsed a union of Austria with Germany and opposed

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and the

Heimwehr The Heimwehr (, ) or Heimatschutz (, ) was a nationalist, initially paramilitary group operating in Austria during the 1920s and 1930s that was similar in methods, organization, and ideology to the Freikorps in Germany. It was opposed to parliam ...

. In the 1920 parliamentary elections it was part of a German National coalition alongside the

Greater German People's Party The Greater German People's Party ( German ''Großdeutsche Volkspartei'', abbreviated GDVP) was a German nationalist and national liberal political party during the First Republic of Austria, established in 1920. Foundation After World War I an ...

, Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p219 and won seven seats. It took part in coalition governments between 1927 and 1933 when the Vice Chancellor and the Minister of the Interior came from its ranks. From 1930 onwards, it allied with the

(''Großdeutsche Volkspartei'') to create a common list for elections under the name ''Nationaler Wirtschaftsblock'' (National Economic Block), which was dissolved in 1934.

Leading politicians

* Karl Hartleb (Vice Chancellor 1927–1930) * Vinzenz Schumy (Governor of Carinthia 1923–1927) * Franz Winkler (Vice Chancellor 1932/33)

Legacy

After

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, when a provisional Austrian government was created in 1945, the Landbund was originally supposed to nominate a member. However, the group was not recreated in the Second Republic. Most former Landbund supporters, who opposed Socialism and also the Catholicism of both the Christian Social Party during the First Republic and the Austrian People's Party during the Second Republic, found a new political home in the

Verband der Unabhängigen The Federation of Independents (german: Verband der Unabhängigen, VdU) was a German nationalist and national-liberal political party in Austria active from 1949 to 1955. It was the predecessor of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Formation ...

and later in the

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, which is most strongly rooted in the same areas where the Landbund had been an important political force.

References

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