Heimwehr
Sign in to saveThe Heimwehr (, ) or Heimatschutz (, ) was a nationalist, initially paramilitary, group that operated in the First Austrian Republic from 1920 to 1936. It was similar in methods, organization, and ideology to the Freikorps in Germany. The Heimwehr was opposed to parliamentary democracy, socialism and Marxism and fought in various skirmishes against left-wing and foreign groups during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of its regional groups also opposed Nazism while others favored it. In spite of its anti-democratic stance, the Heimwehr developed a political wing called the Heimatblock ('Homeland Bloc'
Key facts
- Organization.name
- Heimwehr
- Organization.logo
- File:Emblem of the Heimatschutz.png
- Organization.logo_size
- 250px
- Organization.merged
- Fatherland Front
- Organization.founder
- Richard Steidle
- Organization.type
- Paramilitary
- Organization.origins
- Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia July Putsch
- Organization.area_served
- First Austrian Republic
- Organization.membership
- 400,000 (1929 )
- Organization.affiliations
- Austrian Federal Government
- Political party.name
- Homeland Bloc
- Political party.native_name
- Heimatblock
- Political party.ideology
- Austrian nationalismAnti-communismCorporate statismProgram:
- Political party.position
- Right-wing to far-right
- Political party.seats1_title
- National Council (1930)
- Political party.country
- Austria
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Years of rapid growth 1927–1930
- Inability to unify
- Heimatblock
- 1930 election
- In the Dollfuss government
- Final years
- Uniforms
- References
The Heimwehr (, ) or Heimatschutz (, ) was a nationalist, initially paramilitary, group that operated in the First Austrian Republic from 1920 to 1936. It was similar in methods, organization, and ideology to the Freikorps in Germany. The Heimwehr was opposed to parliamentary democracy, socialism and Marxism and fought in various skirmishes against left-wing and foreign groups during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of its regional groups also opposed Nazism while others favored it. In spite of its anti-democratic stance, the Heimwehr developed a political wing called the Heimatblock ('Homeland Bloc') that was close to the conservative Christian Social Party and took part in both the cabinet of Chancellor Carl Vaugoin in 1930 and in Engelbert Dollfuss' right-wing government from 1932 to 1934. In 1936 the Heimwehr was absorbed into what was at the time the only legally permitted political party in Austria, the Fatherland Front, and then later into the , an amalgamation of militia units that in 1937 became part of Austria's armed forces.
== Origins ==