Today's press conference serves the purpose, Sie über geplante Veranstaltungen und sonstige Aktivitäten des Kärntner Heimatdienstes im Zusammenhang mit dem 100-Jahr-Jubiläum der Kärntner Volksabstimmung zu informieren.

since 2005 and especially since the solemn declaration of the Carinthian Consensus Group on 9. October 2006, to work on a climate of mutual trust in the future, our thinking about voting is shaped by togetherness and we have tried hard ever since, that under the motto remembering, Reconcile, Shaping the future and putting it into practice. Our efforts to reach an understanding, which have long since been largely successful, are not in contradiction to the grateful remembrance of those above 100 Jahren mit der Waffe und dem Stimmzettel erkämpfte Kärntner Landeseinheit im Verbund mit Österreich.

We have that on 10. March, a few hours before the prescribed lockdown at the ceremony for 100. Anniversary of the founding of the Carinthian Home Service and we will continue to do so!

Starting tomorrow in a virtual commemorative event in memory of the 50.000 that day before 100 Jahren am Zollfeld zusammengeströmten Menschen.

Furthermore, as a lasting expression of our commemorative culture, we are erecting a 100-year anniversary memorial in Miklauzhof with the inscription

“Common home 1920 – 2020 Kärnten einig und frei“.

We will also commemorate Hans Steinacher on our own plaque attached to the anniversary memorial (See the article on Instagram and Facebook)

As managing director of the Carinthian Homeland Service, Hans Steinacher was the engine of pro-Austrian propaganda before the referendum, which has been publicly recognized across the country in a variety of ways to this day, because without him there would be no undivided Carinthia. With our appreciation we do not want to displace the dark spots in Steinacher's life. Deshalb haben wir unter der Federführung von KHD-Obmann-Stellvertreter Andreas Mölzer zehn Historiker mit kontroversem Bezug zu Steinacher zur Stellungnahme eingeladen.
We want the result before that 10. October in a documentary under the title "Hans Steinacher – A Carinthian in light and shadow " publish. Damit wollen wir ein Zeichen setzen gegen eine ansonsten weit verbreitete eindimensionale Betrachtungsweise der Geschichte.

With this in mind, we will go before 10. October present the following publications:

• "The Carinthian Heimatdienst and the German ethnic group in Slovenia", such as
• "The post during the fighting and the referendum in Carinthia."

Finally, at the beginning of October we will be in close cooperation with the Carinthian Consensus Group as the editor of their dialogue- and reconciliation work 2005 in a comprehensive 370 Seiten umfassenden Dokumentation präsentieren.

We will conclude the anniversary year for the first time since the vote commemoration on the evening of 9. October with laser projections in memory of the hundreds of bonfires, the night before referendum day 1920 auf Kärntner Bergen abgebrannt wurden.

Wir finanzieren das alles mit freiwilligen Spenden und ohne einem EURO Steuergeld.

Ladies and gentlemen!

However, we should and must not only look to the past, but primarily in a common, be directed towards a peaceful future, Sharpened by common victim commemoration practiced for years with descendants of our former military opponents from Slovenia. With this we draw a line under mutual blame, unter Misstrauen und Aversionen.
If, without the intention of revising, we show each other respect for commemorating votes on the one hand and commemoration of the fighters around the northern border on the other, then we show in miniature, wie ein friedliches und partnerschaftliches Zusammenleben der Völker weltweit funktionieren könnte.

image: Obamann of the Carinthian Homeland Service Dr.. Josef Feldner (Image source: Fritzpress)

Common home Carinthia

1920 12. September 2020

The big Herzogstuhl meeting for the Carinthian referendum

1920 under the open Carinthian sky, today virtually on the Internet and in social media. With

• Cultural groups from Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli
• Historical images and film clips
• Greetings from Carinthian politics as well
• Policy statements by Dr. Josef Feldner and Dr. Marjan storm

Am 12. September 2020, from 12 Noon, you can watch the event online here!

In the picture: Josef Feldner and Marjan Sturm before the video recording for 12. September 2020 (Image rights: Fritzpress)