Doprinos vrhbosanskog nadbiskupa dr. Josipa Stadlera djelovanju Stranke prava u Bosni i Hercegovini tijekom Prvoga svjetskog rata
The Contribution of the Bosnian Archbishop Josip Stadler to the work of the Party of Right in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Author(s): Zoran Grijak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Summary/Abstract: After the annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina in 1908, a number of prominent Bosnian and Hercegovinian Croats founded the Starčević Club of the Croatian Party of Right in Sarajevo in 1909. It emphasized its adherence to Starčević’s programme, but in its ties to parties in Croatia favoured the Frankists. There never was an exclusively Rightist party formed in Bosnia and Hercegovina, despite the fact that some of the key Rightist platforms were included in the programme of the Croat National Community established in 1906 and the Croat Catholic Association founded in 1910. The final meeting of the leadership of the united Party of Right in Opatija in March 1913, where one of the most important issues raised was the attitude to the First Balkan War, was attended by members of the Administrative Board from Bosnia and Hercegovina, including the Sarajevo lawyers Nikola Mandić and Jozo Sunarić, the architect Josip Vancaš, while among those who sent their regrets were one of the founders of the Muslim Progressive Party (1908), Ademaga Mešić, Archbishop Josip Stadler, and others. Archbishop Stadler, however, was not in fact a member of the Administrative Board but one of the founders of Rightist activity and a key organizer in Bosnia and Hercegovina, even though due to his position as a Church dignitary he could not compromise himself among the leaders of political parties. He accepted the Rightist programme of 1894 which contained the aim of attaching Bosnia and Hercegovina to Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia. He sought political support from Frank’s Pure Party of Right in Zagreb and the greater Austrian circle which had formed in 1905 around the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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