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''Volksfront'' ('People's Front') was a political coalition in Alsace, France. ''Volksfront'' was formed in 1928 by the Popular Republican Union (UPR), a group of communists led by Charles Hueber, Progressives led by Camille Dahlet and the Autonomist Landespartei. The goal of the ''Volksfront'' was to seek greater autonomy for Alsace; safeguards for the German language, promotion of the Alsatian economy and administrative autonomy for the region. Largely ''Volksfront'' represented a continuation of the defunct ''Heimatsbund''.〔Fischer, Christopher J. ''(Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939 )''. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. pp. 198-199〕 The ''Volksfront'' showed some similarities of the 1911 National Union, which also had been a loose coalition.〔Fischer, Christopher J. ''(Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939 )''. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. pp. 179〕 Cooperation between Alsatian communists and clerical autonomists had begun with the Bloody Sunday events of 1926.〔Callahan, Kevin J., and Sarah Ann Curtis. ''(Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France )''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. p. 146〕 Regarding the sensitive issue of state-church relations, ''Volksfront'' avoided to publicly take a clear stand.〔 The ''Volksfront'' launched two candidates in a parliamentary by-election in 1928 (the election had been called as two elected autonomist assemblymen, Eugène Ricklin and Joseph Rossé, had been refused to be able to take their seats), Marcel Stuermel and René Hauss.〔 ''Volksfront'' won the 1929 municipal election in Strasbourg, defeating the incumbent socialist mayor Jacques Peirotes (who was backed by an anti-clericalist and assimilations coalition). ''Volksfront'' won twenty-two seats in the municipal council.〔Hülsen, Bernhard von. ''(Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944 )''. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. pp. 169, 264〕 They formed a municipal government with Hueber as mayor and Michel Walter as deputy mayor. The coalition also gained a strong presence in the municipal election in Colmar.〔 After the election, the group around Hueber was expelled from the French Communist Party. They formed the Opposition Communist Party of Alsace-Lorraine, which became a new constituent of the ''Volksfront''.〔 As the Landespartei moved closer to National Socialism, with an increasingly anti-semitic and anti-democratic discourse, divisions began to appear in the ''Volksfront''. UPR deserted the coalition (which were alienated by the anti-religious postures of the National Socialists), followed by Dahlet's Progressives in 1933.〔 ''Volksfront'' was dissolved in 1935.〔Goodfellow, Samuel. ''(From Communism to Nazism: The Transformation of Alsatian Communists )'', in ''Journal of Contemporary History'', Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 231-258〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volksfront (Alsace)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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