| Native name | German Association |
|---|---|
| Foundation | 1919 |
| Dissolution | 1926 |
| Merger | Tiroler Volkspartei Deutschfreiheitliche Partei |
| Successor | South Tyrolean People's Party (not legal successor) |
| Ideology | German-speaking minority interests Regionalism Autonomism Conservatism Christian democracy (minority) German nationalism (minority) National liberalism (minority) |
| Position | Right-wing |
| National | Lists of Slavs and Germans |
| Colorcode | Black |
| Country | Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol |
The Deutscher Verband was a coalition of right-leaning German-speaking political parties that was formed in South Tyrol in 1919 after the region was annexed by Italy. It was a merger of the Catholic Tiroler Volkspartei and the national liberal Deutschfreiheitliche Partei. The German-speaking Social Democrats joined with the Italian Socialist Party.[1]
At the 1921 Italian general election the coalition won 90% of the vote and elected all four of the deputies that were allotted to the region. The first leader of the Deutscher Verband was Eduard Reut-Nicolussi.[2] In 1923 he was replaced by the lawyer Karl Tinzl. The most important press organ of the DV, until its prohibition, was the Tiroler (after 1923, Der Landsmann).[3]
The DV as banned along with the rest of the non-Fascist parties in 1926. After 1945, the political tradition of the DV was continued by the South Tyrolean People's Party, which had the same leaders, and also used the edelweiss as its election symbol.
References
- ^ Othmar Parteli: Südtirol (1918–1970), in: Geschichte des Landes Tirol. Band 4/2. Athesia, Bozen 1988
- ^ "Der Frieden von St". Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ^ Stefan Lechner (2012), "Die Erste Option: die Vergabe der italienischen Staatsbürgerschaft an die Südtiroler in Folge der Annexion 1920", Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung. Festschrift für Hans Heiss (in German), Cittadini innanzi tutto, Hannes Obermair; Stephanie Risse; Carlo Romeo (eds.), Wien-Bozen: Folio Verlag, pp. 219–236 (p. 223), ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4