Celebration of the Carinthian referendum from 10. Oktober 1920

When: Thursday, the 9. October 2025, one 11 watch
Wo: Sea of ​​the Carinthian unit in the Landhaushof in Klagenfurt

It would be an honor and joy,
To welcome you

Participant:
► Hunting horn players Rosental
► Carinthian flag wing
► Singing round Emmersdorf
► PFARERER MAG. Erich Ickelsheimer
► Moderation: Dr. Bruno Burchhart

program:
► Fanfare
► Welcome
► Carinthian flag wing
► Special greeting
► Music
► Greetings from guests of honor:
Landtag president Ing. Reinhart Rohr
Mayor of Klagenfurt Christian Scheider
► Network: Andreas Mölzer (KHD chairman)
► Music
► Fanfare
► Speech of the youth: Helena Wallner
► Greetings:
D.I. Karlheinz Moschitz (Volksdeutsche)
Dr. Massimiliano Lacotta (Italy)
Ivo Vrhuninc (Slovenia)
► Music
► Speech: Gerhard Doerfler (Governor a.d.)
► Music
► Prayer and intercession
► Nutrition of wreaths under the sounds of the "comrade" song
► Carinthian home song

“Where you can do with blood
The border wrote …“

It was the Carinthian defense fight, who brought a rethink with the victorious powers of the First World War, was zur Anordnung einer Volksabstimmung in Kärnten führte.
At the end of the First World War, the various peoples of the Habsburg Danube monarchy called for their own state. So the Südslavs claimed for their SHS state (Serbs Croatians, Slovenes) also parts of Carinthia. Without warning, the SHS troops marched into Carinthia. The Carinthians defended themselves against this land robbery under the leadership of the state administrator Dr. Arthur Lemisch und des Militärkommandanten Wilhelm Hülgerth im Abwehrkampf mit militärischem Widerstand.
Despite military setbacks, the Carinthian referendum on 10. October 1920, The one after the intellectual defensive struggle of the historic Carinthian home service, Under the direction of Hans Steinacher, im „Kampf um die Herzen“ zum Erfolg führte und Kärntens Einheit und Freiheit brachte.