The German Radical Party (

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: ''Deutschradicale Partei''), until

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the All-German Free Party (''Freialldeutsche Partei''), was a

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, active mainly in

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History

After the Alldeutschen Vereinigung's electoral success in the Reichstag elections in

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, there was a split between party leader

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and the moderate

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. Although von Schönerer placed

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and

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ideology at the center of his politics and was strongly opposed to the

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and the

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, for Wolf and many other supporters of the Alldeutschen Vereinigung the German-Czech national conflict was the priority. In addition, there were personal disagreements between Wolf and von Schönerer. In

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Wolf finally broke away from the Alldeutschen Vereinigung and founded the All-German Free Party, in which he could count on the support of German-speaking followers from

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and

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, as well as some Alldeutschen Vereinigung deputies in the Reichstag. For example, five members of the Moravian Regional Assembly joined the new party. While the All-German Free Party continued to represent a völkisch polity of German nationality, their anti-Semitic attitude was more relaxed, and the destruction of the Habsburg monarchy was no longer openly demanded. Rather, All-German Free Party saw itself as representing the interests of the German-speaking people in the Habsburg Monarchy, and therefore did not shy away from soliciting Jewish votes. The All-German Free Party was always more successful in elections than the Alldeutschen Vereinigung and, together with the German Agrarian Party, became the strongest pan-Germanist party in Bohemia. Following the electoral success of the All-German Free Party in the 1907 Reichsrat elections, the party changed its name to the "German Radical Party" that same year. From 1910 he worked with other German national parties in the Reichsrat in the

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. In 1920 the German Radical Party finally merged with the

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References

* Philipp Rohrbach: Freialldeutsche Partei (Österreich). In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 5. Organizationen, Institutionen, Bewegungen. berlin u. to. 2012, S. 257 f. * Adam Wandruszka, Peter Urbanitsch (Hrsg.): Die Habsburgermonarchie. 1848–1918. Band 8: Politische Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft. Teilband 1: Vereine, Parteien und Interessenverbände als Träger der politischen Partizipation. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2006, {{ISBN, 3-7001-3540-8. Defunct political parties in Austria 1902 establishments in Austria-Hungary Ethnic organizations based in Austria-Hungary German nationalist political parties German nationalism in Austria Nationalist parties in Austria Political parties in Austria-Hungary Anti-Czech sentiment Anti-Slavic sentiment