Klagenfurt/Wernberg. – At the well-attended annual general meeting of the Carinthian Homeland Service (KHD), the one on Saturday, the 15. March 2025 took place at the Gasthaus Fruhmann in Wernberg, wurde eine Entschließung für die kommenden Arbeitsschwerpunkte des Heimatdienstes in der näheren und weiteren Zukunft beschlossen.

The Carinthian Homeland Service as a civil society organization, which is dedicated to Carinthian national patriotism, as well as the welfare and woe of the people living in the country and the country itself, In the resolution, names the following tasks and projects for its current and future work:

1. The home service as Truer and guardian of the Carinthian identity
2. The home service as patriotic conscience of the country
3. The home service as patriotic "NGO" and wertkonservativer „Think Tank“

The resolution of the annual general meeting of the KHD can be found in full in the appendix, also a picture with the board. (Rights free, from left to right: Secretary Wendelin Mölzer, Chairman Andreas Mölzer, Honorary chairman Josef Feldner, Deputy Chairman Franz Jordan, Christoph Steinacher, Finance officer Wolfgang Ptok)

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FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE:

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: Don't open up the old trenches again! Page 4-5

Our Carinthia

• Perschmannhof excitement: Between commemoration and left-wing ideology Page 6–8
• Carinthian Homeland Service concerned about peace in the country Seite 9
• Franz Jordan:
  • Abused memorial site Seite 11
  • Worrying facts about the Carinthian Year of Remembrance Culture 2025 Pages 11-13
• Letter to the editor: Why Rohrer's analysis falls short Pages 14-16

Ethnic groups and associations

• Bruno Burchhart: KHD helps Silesian Germans Page 16-17
• Carinthian School Association Südmark mourns Ebba Lutschounig Seite 17
• Karl Heinz Moschitz:
  • 100 years of reconstruction Pages 18-19

     

  • Participation in the traditional costume parade in Villach Seite 20
  • Participation in Pontebba at the “Festa dell’Assunta” Seite 21
• A monument to the defensive fighters: Preserve memory, Strengthen cohesion Page 22-23

Summer is over and we – including the employees of the Carinthian Homeland Service – are back to autumn work. And this means that the preparations for the 10. October and the corresponding celebrations. As was the case for the first time last year, the working groups will become the Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations on the day before 10. October will hold our own celebration in the Klagenfurt Landhaushof at the Carinthian Unity Monument. This time the keynote speaker will be the historian Univ. Prof. Dr. Stefan Karner appears. The preparatory work is again essentially in the area of ​​the home service, whereby our old friend Dr. Bruno Burchard neuerlich als bewährter Organisator tätig ist.

However, the past few summer weeks have not been quiet or really work-free. The police operation at the so-called “Antifa Camp” at Perschmann Hof in southern Carinthia and the subsequent media and political debate naturally also concerned the homeland service. Mehr dazu im Blattinneren.
The first challenge this fall, however, will be the discussion in the Carinthian State Museum, which, at our suggestion, about the Carinthian culture of remembrance 24. will take place in September. Die detaillierte Einladung dazu ebenso im Blattinneren.

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.

A comment from KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer

So the Slovenian Foreign Minister has now visited the Carinthian Perschmann Hof, Locked a wreath and youngest participants in the youngest “Antifa Camp”, The as is well known that the goal of a police operation has become, Your sympathy expressed. Although she let us know , dass in der österreichischen Bevölkerung offenbar noch zusätzliche „Bewusstseinsbildung“ in Hinblick auf die NS-Verbrechen geschaffen werden müsse.

Now you can say with fug and right, that especially in the commemorative year 2025 In this regard, some things have happened in Carinthia. The not entirely undisputed exhibition in the Carinthia Museum and those in the state archive are probably enough for that. And when it comes to the police operation on the Perschmann Hof, So the report to an examination committee will soon show, Who was responsible for the escalation, die Nachwuchs -Antifaschisten oder die Polizeibeamten.

And in terms of historical awareness of consciousness, the Slovenian side would have some catching up to do: The numerous murder- and skull sites in Slovenia, on which the Tito partisans their opponents – Croats, Slovenian cathedral chances, Displaced folk Germans, Prisoners of war and mostly civilians - straightened, one would have to put it into public awareness as well. And Austria's busy Foreign Minister Beate Meindl Reisinger would have a variety of occasions in the event of a visit to Slovenia, ebenso Kränze nieder zu legen und Worte des Bedauerns zu sprechen.

We are also in Carinthia – The responsible policy, But also the patriotic civil society - honestly for the preservation of the Slovenian ethnic group, their culture and language endeavors, während den Altösterreichern deutscher Muttersprache in Slowenien selbst noch alle Minderheitenrechte vorenthalten werden.

So good neighborhood demands mutual honesty – auch in Bezug auf die jüngere leidvolle Geschichte.

image: Wikipedia/Euranet_plus license: CC BY-SA 2.0

At the well-attended annual general meeting of the Carinthian
home service (KHD), the one on Saturday, the 15. March 2025 took place at the Gasthaus Fruhmann in Wernberg, The old board was initially relieved of its duties, and the KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer and his team were once again unanimously re-elected. In further consequence
wurde eine Entschließung für die kommenden Arbeitsschwerpunkte des Heimatdienstes in der näheren und weiteren Zukunft beschlossen.

The Carinthian Homeland Service as a civil society organization, which is dedicated to Carinthian national patriotism, as well as the welfare and woe of the people living in the country and the country itself, In the resolution, names the following tasks and projects for its current and future work:

1. The home service as protector and guardian of the Carinthian identity
2. The home service as the country's patriotic conscience
3. The Homeland Service as a patriotic “NGO” and conservative “think tank”

The The resolution of the annual general meeting of the KHD can be found in full in the appendix, also a picture with the re-elected board. (right: Frei, in the picture from left to right: Secretary Wendelin Mölzer, Finance officer Wolfgang Ptok, Chairman-Deputy. Franz Jordan, Chairman Andreas Mölzer, Organisationsreferent Christioph Steinacher, Association representative Karl-Heinz Moschitz)

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FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE:

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: Language skills in and around Carinthia Page 4-5

KHD-Activ

• Upcoming Events: People come together when they talk Seite 6
• Seminar: Federal army and national defense side 7
• Franz Jordan: Simple commemoration in Liescha/Lese side 8–9
• 2025 will be a year of commemoration and remembrance side 9

ethnic groups & associations

• Karl Heinz Moschitz:
  • Partnership with the traditional Carinthian volunteer riflemen side 11–12
  • Kanaltal cult association in the Maria Saal open-air museum side 13
• Franz Jordan: against forgetting side 14
• Remembering the Croatian victims of May 1945 side 14
• 20 Years of KAB local group Feieistritz/Globasnitz Seite 15
• Re-erecting the memorial cross for the Turkish battles side 15

Our Carinthia

• Andreas Mölzer: Carinthian hospitality has a tradition side 16–18
• Land of many possibilities side 20–21
• Mayor of Ossiach Gernot Prinz in conversation side 22–23
• obituaries:
  • Sabine Ladstätter Seite 26
  • Sepp Koller side 27
  • Gerhard Pichler side 27

The third edition of “Kärntner” this year is dedicated to tourism. Carinthia is a tourism country and tourism is one of the most important economic sectors and many Carinthians make a living from it. In addition to the reports on the activities of the home service and other reports on the activities of the other home- and traditional associations, we want to continually confront our readers with topics, that are important for our homeland. And tourism is an extremely important phenomenon for Carinthia. A phenomenon, which is extremely important for the identity and mentality of the Carinthians, sind sie doch von alters her ein gastfreundliches Völkchen.

In this issue we also provide information about the next projects of the Carinthian Homeland Service. Specifically, this is an event as part of our “KHD – the next generation” project for patriotic youth, as well as the scientific symposium next September on the topic of language skills in Carinthia and the planned major event in the homeland- and traditional associations 10. Oktober.
And besides, we need you, As in every issue, we once again ask for your support and donations. Die Arbeit des Kärntner Heimatdienstes ist nur mit Ihrer Hilfe möglich.

Among those attending the memorial were, Botschafter Daniel Gluncic sowie hochrangige Vertreter aus den kroatischen Organisationen mit Generalsekretär Zlatko Filipic vom Bleiburger Ehrenzug.
Bereits vor der Messe wurde auch am Loibacherfeld bei Bleiburg der Opfer gedacht.

Together with Consul Dr. Nicholas Hermann, the vice president. of the Croatian World Congress Franjo Rastigorac and the secretary of the HSK Rade Lukic, we also visited the place, wo für tausende Kroaten der blutige Kreuzweg begann.

Viele Kroaten wurden von den Tito Partisanen bereits auf Kärntner Boden getötet.

A delegation from the home associations with KHD chairman. Franz Jordan, KAB district chairman Valentin Leitgeb, Stv. Walter Duller, Ortsobmann (Bleiburg), Sigi Kröpl and the chairman of the Jauntal traditional costume group Willi Kleber took part in the Croatian memorial service, wo wir von kroatischer Seite sehr freundschaftlich empfangen wurden.

Im Anschluss an den Gedenkgottesdienst lud der Bleiburger Ehrenzug zu einem gemeinsamen Abendessen.

During the negotiations surrounding the memorial at Loibacherfeld, Justice, albeit belatedly! Die Grundstücke wurden per Gerichtsentscheid den PBV zurückgegeben.
Around the historical Croatian coat of arms from the memorial stone, which was removed by decision of the authorities, There was another negotiation with the university. Prof. Dr. Jareb from Zagreb was invited as a historian and expert in Croatian heraldry!

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FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE:

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: We Carinthians – close to our homeland and open to the world Page 4-5

KHD-Activ

• Franz Jordan: Ceremonial inauguration of the Arthur Lemisch Monument Seite 7
• Literary soiree focusing on German-Slovenian authors Seite 8
• Franz Jordan:
  Let us respect and honor our ancestors! Seite 9
  Farewell without return Seite 10
• KHD annual general meeting: “Close to home and open to the world” Seite 11
• Decision of the KHD: Strengthening language acquisition in Carinthia Pages 12–19

  ethnic groups & associations

• Karl Heinz Mochitz: Report on the activities of the Kanaltaler Kulturverein pages 20-22
• Oswald Oman: Disappearance of languages ​​and dialects Seite 23
• W. Nurse: Celebrate Gendermarie friends! Seite 24
• Bruno Burchhart: About the care and nurturing of our language Pages 25-26

In the zweiten Ausgabe des „Kärntners“ im Jahre 2024 You will primarily find the extensive resolution, die der Kärntner Heimatdienst bei seiner Jahreshauptversammlung im vergangenen März beschlossen hat.
In this resolution we emphasize, that maintaining the tradition of defensive struggle and referendums remains a central concern of the Homeland Service. Furthermore, it is important to us to advocate for the preservation and positive development of Carinthia's cultural identity. We also emphasize, that environmental protection also means service to the homeland and that it is also important for the country and its people, dass der Wirtschaftsstandort Kärnten sich positiv entwickelt.
Within our modest means, all of our publications and our events, we are willing, dafür zu wirken und zu werken.