The Linz Program of 1882 was a political platform that called for the complete Germanization of the Austrian state.
It was created in response to the rising social, economic and political position of the Slavic peoples within the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.
The emotional inclinations of the framers are well represented in the following excerpt from their manifesto: "We protest against all attempts to convert Austria into a Slavic state.
We shall continue to agitate for the maintenance of German as the official language and to oppose the extension of federalism ... [W]e are steadfast supporters of the alliance with Germany and the foreign policy now being followed by the empire" (Roman, 512).
This was due in large part to Schönerer's venomous anti-Semitic inclinations, which became associated with the program over time, especially after 1885 when he had an Aryan paragraph added to it.