Christian Social Party (Austria)

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.

Christian Social Party
Christlichsoziale Partei
FounderKarl Lueger
Founded1891 (1891)
Dissolved1934 (1934)
Merged intoFatherland Front
HeadquartersVienna, Austria
IdeologySocial conservatism
Political Catholicism
Austrian nationalism
Antisemitism
Right-wing populism
Christian socialism
Corporatism
Monarchism (until 1918,
later factions)
Political positionRight-wing
ReligionRoman Catholicism
  • Politics of Austria
  • Political parties
  • Elections
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