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The Social Democracy
It
was not until 1906 – very late in comparison to other industrial
villages in Austria – that the local group of the Austrian Social
Democratic Party, as well as the first social democratic trade union,
were founded in Marienthal. From the end of World War I until the
present, Marienthal has clearly been politically dominated by Social
Democrats. The peasant village of Gramatneusiedl had remained
predominantly conservative and partly German nationalistic.
Nevertheless, since the 1890s a new proletariat has arisen in the
peasant village: the workers of the railway and the repair station for
trains. This proletariat was largely independent from the workers of the
Marienthal textile factory.
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Board and party committee celebrating the founding of the social
democratic youth organization Children’s Friends, local group
Marienthal, in 1921 (dissolved 1934).
Photo
1921; original 10,7 X 17,1 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture collection, call
number 43/300.
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The
Republican Defence Union, local group Marienthal (founded 1923, dissolved officially 1933, but in fact 1934), a paramilitary organization of the Austrian
Social Democracy.
Photo
about 1929; original 8,8 X 13,8 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture collection, call
number 43/126.
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The
Republican Defence Union, local group Marienthal.
Photo about 1930; original 8,7 X 13,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/064.
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Railwaymen of the Gramatneusiedl railway station, a proletariat
largely autonomous from the workers of Marienthal.
Photo 1909; original 8,9 X 14,0 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in
Austria (Graz), »Marienthal« Virtual Archives,
Georg Grausam picture
collection, call number 47/012.001.051.
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The
Gramatneusiedl Catholic Girls’ Club (founded 1910, dissolved 1938).
Photo about 1911; original 9,0 X 14,0 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in
Austria (Graz), »Marienthal« Virtual Archives,
Georg Grausam picture
collection, call number 47/012.001.114.
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The
Catholic Club and Children’s Clubhouse (built 1928, pulled down 1992) near the church
of Gramatneusiedl,
Georg Grausam-Gasse 1, conservative counterpart of the clubhouse of the
social democratic Children’s Friends.
Cutting of a picture postcard 1928, [s.l.: s.n.]; original
8,0 X 14,0 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in
Austria (Graz), »Marienthal« Virtual Archives,
Georg Grausam picture
collection, call number 47/012.001.109.
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First performance of the solemn play »Austria«, written by the
teacher Ferdinand Schwarz from Gramatneusiedl on occasion of the
murder of Engelbert Dollfuß (1892–1934), in the Catholic Club and Children’s Clubhouse.
Photo 1934; original 8,9 X 13,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/035.
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The
German Sports Club (founded 1913), the most important German
nationalist organization of Gramatneusiedl, merged in the local
National Socialist German Workers Party in 1932.
Photo 1926; original 8,9 X 13,9 cm.
Source: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria (Graz),
Walter Dienstl: Marienthal-Gramatneusiedl picture
collection, call number 43/060.
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© Reinhard Müller
Status: June 2010
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