Austria-Hungary Membership-badge of the Christian Social Party

[Christian Zulus]

Membership-badge of the Christian Social Party

Gentlemen,

that's a membership-badge of the Christian Social Party of Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Soc...y_%28Austria%29 , the dominating political party in the 1st Republic of Austria. In 1933 that party had been incorporated into the fascist "Fatherland Front" (Vaterl?ndische Front) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Front_%28Austria%29 .

Kurt von Schuschnigg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schuschnigg had been a leading figure in the Christian Social Party and in the "Fatherland Front".

The badge is made of tombac with enamel and most likly from the 1920s:

Best regards

Christian

[Viribus Unitis]

It shows the traditional symbol of the CS, the Alba-Rose, a very rare and old type of rose. In germa it' also called the Bauernrose (Farmer- Rose).

[Christian Zulus]

It shows the traditional symbol of the CS, the Alba-Rose, a very rare and old type of rose. In germa it' also called the Bauernrose (Farmer- Rose).

Dear Johannes,

many thanks for the information .

I didn't know, that the CS-symbol had been a Alba-Rose .

Best regards

Christian

[Viribus Unitis]

Well, The SOcialist Party had a Red Nelk

[Christian Zulus]

Membership-badge of the Christian Social Party

The badge is made of tombac with enamel and most likely from the 1920s:

Gentlemen,

that badge should be earlier, than from the 1920s .

I asked my grandmother (98 years old) from where she has got that membership-badge. He told me, that it is from her father (my grand-grandfather), Leopold Fritsch, who had been all his life a member of the Christian Social Party and a keen supporter of their ideology and of Karl Lueger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lueger , the popular major of Vienna during the late years of the k.u.k. Empire.

Leopold Fritsch died in 1923. So, it is more likely, that the badge is from around 1900 or from the 1910s.

My grandmother (borne in 1909) told me, that her father always wore at official meetings a white Carnation flower at his jacket and not the original Alba-Rose, which had been to rare and too expensive.

Best regards

Christian

Edited July 16, 2007 by Christian Zulus