Sudeten German Rural League Sudetendeutscher Landbund | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Josef Mayer |
| Founded | 25 March 1928 |
| Dissolved | 1935 |
| Split from | Farmers' League |
| Ideology | German nationalism Antisemitism Agrarianism Negativism |
| Political position | Far-right |
Sudetendeutscher Landbund ('Sudeten German Rural League', SdLB) was a Sudeten German political party in interwar Czechoslovakia. The party was founded in 1928, following a split in the Farmers' League. [1] [2] The founding party congress was held in Brno on 25 March 1928. [3] The founders of SdLB had constituted the völkisch wing of the Farmers' League. [1] SdLB was a German nationalist farmers party, opposed to Czechoslovak statehood. [2] Georg Hanreich and Josef Mayer served as chairmen of the party. [2]
SdLB contested the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election in alliance with the German National Party. [2] Hanreich was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. [2] He was a member of the DNP parliamentary faction until 6 October 1933, after which he stayed as an independent. [2]
The party published the newspaper Sudetendeutscher Landbote from Brno. [2]
The party was dissolved in 1935. [2]