Page "Georg Ritter von Schönerer" Paragraph 5

Tensions rose in 1879 after the accession of Austrian minister-president Eduard Taaffe, whose monarchist politics Schönerer and his followers considered " anti-German ".

By 1882 he together with politicians like Viktor Adler and Heinrich Friedjung had worked out the Linz Program (" not liberal, not clerical, but national ") of the German national movement, which would become a considerable force in Austrian politics.

The program aimed at the autonomy of the predominantly German-speaking Cisleithanian crown lands, including the split-off of " alien " Galicia, Bukovina and Dalmatia, and their affiliation with the German Empire ruled by the House of Hohenzollern.

These plans even fit with the ideas of Polish, Hungarian and Croatian nationalists, but would have entailed the disempowerment of the House of Habsburg and the Germanisation of the Czech lands in Bohemia.