Sudeten German Party
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Sudeten German Party
Sudetendeutsche Partei |
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| Secretary | Konrad Henlein |
| Founded | October 1, 1933 |
| Dissolved | November 5, 1938 |
| Merger of |
German National Socialist Workers' Party, German National Party |
| Merged into | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Headquarters | Aš, later shifted to Cheb |
| Newspaper | Die Zeit |
| Paramilitary wing |
Volkssport, Freiwilliger deutscher Schutzdienst (FS), Sudetendeutsches Freikorps (SFK) |
| Membership (1938) | 1.35 million |
| Ideology |
German nationalism Pan-Germanism Nazism (at later stage) |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Black, red |
The Sudeten German Party (German: Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP, Czech: Sudetoněmecká strana) was created by Konrad Henlein under the name Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront ("Front of Sudeten German Homeland") on October 1, 1933, some months after the state of Czechoslovakia had outlawed the German National Socialist Workers' Party (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, DNSAP). In April 1935, the party was renamed Sudetendeutsche Partei following a mandatory demand of the Czechoslovak government. The name was officially changed to Sudeten German and Carpathian German Party (Sudetendeutsche und Karpatendeutsche Partei) in November 1935.
With the rising power of Nazi Party in Germany, the Sudeten German Party became a major pro-Nazi force in Czechoslovakia with explicit official aim of breaking the country up and joining it to the Third Reich. By June 1938, the party had over 1,3 million members, i.e. 40.6% of ethnic-German citizens of Czechoslovakia. During last free democratic elections before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the May 1938 communal elections, the party gained 88% of ethnic-German votes, taking over control of most municipal authorities in the Czech borderland. The country's mass membership made it one of the largest fascist parties in Europe at the time.
In 1903, a group of Sudeten Germans living in the Bohemian crown lands of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created the German Workers' Party (DAP). Influenced by the ideas of Pan-Germanism and Anti-Slavism, they opposed the Czech National Revival movement advocated by the Young Czech Party. The history of this party is centered on the cities of Eger (German for present-day Cheb) and Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), it originated and gave the impetus for Austrian National Socialism.
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