Christian Social Party (Austria)
Christian Social Party Christlichsoziale Partei | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Karl Lueger |
| Founded | 1891/1893 |
| Dissolved | 1934 |
| Merged into | Fatherland Front |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
| Ideology | Social conservatism Political Catholicism Austrian nationalism Antisemitism Right-wing populism Christian socialism Corporatism Monarchism (until 1918, later factions) |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| International affiliation | SIPDIC (since 1931) |
The Christian Social Party (German: Christlichsoziale Partei, CS or CSP) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and under the First Austrian Republic, from 1891 to 1934. The party was affiliated with Austrian nationalism that sought to keep Catholic Austria out of the State of Germany founded in 1871, which it viewed as Protestant and Prussian-dominated; it identified Austrians on the basis of their predominantly Catholic religious identity as opposed to the predominantly Protestant religious identity of the Prussians.