Civic Workers' Party Explained

The Civic Workers' Party or Civic Labour Party^[1] (de|Bürgerliche Arbeitspartei) was a minor political party in Austria during the 1920s. It was led by former imperial foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, Ottokar Czernin.

History

The only parliamentary election contested by the party was in 1920,^[2] when the party was part of the Democratic Parties alliance alongside the Democrats and the Burgenland Citizens' and Farmers' Party.^[3] The alliance won one seat, taken by Czernin of the Civic Workers' Party. Among the party's candidates were a number of women's rights activists, including Elise Richter, Marianne Hainisch and Helene Granitsch.^[4]

After Czernin's retirement from politics in 1923, the party merged with the Democratic Party and Civic Freedom Party to form the Civic Democratic Labour Party (Bürgerlich-demokratische Arbeitspartei)^[5] which received just 0.57% of the vote and failed to win a seat in the 1923 parliamentary election.

Notes and References

1. Book: Wojciech . Roszkowski . Jan . Kofman . Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century . M.E. Sharpe . 2008 . Czernin, Ottokar . 1948.
2. Book: . Philip Stöver . 2010 . Elections in Europe: A data handbook . 203 . 9783832956097.
3. Book: . Philip Stöver . 2010 . Elections in Europe: A data handbook . 207 . 9783832956097.
4. Book: Hauch, Gabriella . Frauenbewegungen – Frauen in der Politik . Tálos, Emmerich . et al . Handbuch des politischen Systems Österreichs: Erste Republik 1918-1938 . Manz . 1995 . 287.
5. Book: Nordsieck, Wolfram . Parties and Elections in Austria and South Tyrol . 2022 . 72.