Using the example of Austria in the years 1933–1938, the study reveals previously neglected aspects of the class discourse of the interwar period. The impetus was the alienation at the discrepancy between the great effort in establishing the professional organization and the very modest result. While the authoritarian traits of the system superimpose everything else in the current master narrative and lead to the role of the representatives of the corporate state as resistance fighters against National Socialism being underestimated, the analysis of the thinking of conservative contemporaries shows that the occupation that a person does is not it can make out. It is based on an understanding of politics that does not focus on the externally measurable, but rather on basic human sensitivities.