Spodnještajerski deželnozborski nemški poslanci mestne in kmečke kurije 1848–1918
German Representative of the Rural and Urban Curiae in the Lower Styrian Provincial Assembly 1848–1918

Summary/Abstract: In the following contribution, the author analyses the German members of the Lower Styrian Provincial Assembly (urban and rural curiae) in the period from 1848/61 to 1918. After the restoration of the constitutional life in 1861, a Slovenian party (a party in the pre-modern sense), which strived for language and national equality, and a German “constitutional” party were formed. The national question was becoming increasingly topical in the Austrian political arena. While the national component was still not so prominent at the first election, it already gained a more evident role until the next by-election. In the following years (decades), nationalism intensified and influenced a progressively national attitude of the German (as well as the Slovenian) representatives.

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