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The Carinthian Home Service has not received any state subsidies for many years. Das ist auch bei weitgehend ehrenamtlicher Bewältigung seiner kostenaufwendigen Informationsarbeit ein großes Problem.

The non-partisan information work valued by tens of thousands of sympathizers for more than half a century, in particular peace, which is undoubtedly in the interest of the state of Carinthia and which has also been internationally recognized in Carinthia with the Culture Prize of the City of Villach and with the European Citizens' Prize- und Verständigungsarbeit des KHD muss daher nahezu zur Gänze aus Spenden und sonstigen privaten Zuwendungen aus dem Kreis unserer Förderer gedeckt werden.

Zur Deckung ständig steigender Kosten müssen wir bereits auf Rücklagen zurückgreifen.

Although we don't pay author royalties, Since the death of a number of generous donors, we have been able to finance our newspaper "Der Kärntner" (despite reduction of the addressed print run to approx 10.000) mit den laufenden Spenden nicht mehr decken.
We have therefore been forced for several years, fall back on reserves from an inheritance that we received years ago, was verständlicherweise jedoch auf Dauer nicht möglich sein kann.
Nevertheless, we do not want to reduce the wide range of our information work if possible. We still want thousands of Carinthians, and meanwhile about the same number of sympathizers throughout Austria are constantly informed. Daher wollen wir auch in Hinkunft kein festes Zeitungsentgelt einheben und möchten am Prinzip der Freiwilligkeit hinsichtlich Spenden festhalten.

Schon mit einer einmaligen Spende sichern Sie sich den Weiterbezug unserer Zeitung.
It is at your own discretion, welchen Beitrag Sie uns spenden.
Jeder Euro zählt.

And please keep that in mind: Our goal is not only to secure our work for Carinthia and Austria to the same extent as before, sondern mit Ihrer Hilfe weiter auszubauen.

Thank you to all of our sponsors,
who have often made our work possible for many years with the ongoing transfer of larger amounts. We combine this thanks with a request, uns auch weiterhin zu helfen.

donation account: Raiffeisen Landesbank Carinthia
IBAN: AT66 3900 0000 0100 3250
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Regarding: KHD-Spend

Donate for the children of the neighboring valley

Home service help for Gegentaler disaster victims

A few weeks ago, the Carinthian area valley, the parishes of Arriach and Treffen, Victim of a massive natural disaster. Hours of cloudbursts caused mudslides and mudslides, die bis hinaus auf das Treffner Feld beim Villacher Autobahnkreuz alles verwüsteten.
There is a real avalanche of willingness to help and the disaster fund helps with the most severe damage, However, most of the victims of the mudslide receive only a fraction of the costs actually caused by the insurance company. Houses there are uninhabitable, Roads were torn down and whole villages were destroyed. Among other things, the sports field of the market town of Treffen, auf dem vor allem die Kinder des Gegendtals Fußball spielten und regelmäßig im Rahmen des FC Treffen trainierten.
Now the Carinthian Home Service and the donors supporting it can undoubtedly only provide modest help in view of the enormous dimensions of the catastrophe. But we are able, to make a contribution that should not be underestimated in the restoration of this catastrophically muddy and mud-covered sports field for the Geländetal children. Und das wollen wir auch tun.
If you put the note “Kärntner Heimat-Hilfe” on your donation payment slip, we will match these donations from homeland service funds. At the beginning of the coming school year, we will then meet the donation amount with the president of the FC, Contractor Erwin Schoenett, ausfolgen und darüber im „Kärntner“ und auch in den anderen Kärntner Medien berichten.

We help to restore the Treffner sports field!

donation account: Raiffeisen Landesbank Carinthia
IBAN: AT66 3900 0000 0100 3250
BIC: RZKTAT2K
Regarding: Donation area

The war has come back to Europe - Donate for German children in Ukraine

Ukraine has become a battlefield. Galicia, the Carpathian Ukraine, Bukovina once belonged to the Habsburg monarchy, today they are Ukrainian territory and a theater of war. In Carpathian Ukraine, which is hardly further away from Vienna than Carinthia, there is still a small remaining German minority. Old Austrian native German speaker, Carpathian Germans! Um sie will sich der Kärntner Heimatdienst im Zuge seiner Friedensarbeit nunmehr verstärkt kümmern.
In the past few years, the Carinthian Homeland Service has supported groups of German mother tongues in the old Austrians. Whether in today's Slovenia, neighboring Friuli or in the more distant Czech Republic, the Carinthian homeland service has always supported German-speaking old Austrians. Now because of the current war events we want the small Carpathian German minority, also old Austrians, support. In the villages around Mukachevo/Munkatsch still survive 3.000 Deutsche, many older people, but also young families with children, mostly in extremely modest circumstances. And they try, the German culture, to preserve the German language and the old Austrian mentality. Sie benötigen Hilfe zumal in den Tagen des Krieges.
Mit Ihrer Hilfe wollen wir im kommenden Sommer – wenn es die Kriegsereignisse erlauben – ­Kinder dieser altösterreichischen Volksgruppe zur Erholung nach Kärnten einladen.
This will only be the start of a long-term planned support of the old Austrian ethnic group with German mother tongue in the Carpathian Ukraine. To, dear readers, dear friends of the Carinthian home service, benötigen wir Ihr Engagement und Ihre Spende.

Choose one of the books or a DVD from the KHD shop (See page 2; every donor can get their book/DVD from the KHD office in Klagenfurt, Prinzhoferstraße 8, collect).

Help the German children in Ukraine, unterstützen Sie die Arbeit des KHD.

donation account: Raiffeisen Landesbank Carinthia
IBAN: AT66 3900 0000 0100 3250
BIC: RZKTAT2K
Regarding: Donation Ukraine

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"The Carinthian" "The Carinthian" “The Carinthian”

Now the investigation of the memorial abusers must also be accelerated. The KHD is ready for this, Further 5.000 Euro Belohnung zu zahlen.

After the State monument “Site of Carinthian Unity” in Klagenfurt's Landhaushof and that Jubilee memorial had been violated in Miklauzhof, became the Slovenian name on several at the beginning of this year bilingual place-name signs überschmiert.

KHD promises 5.000 Euro reward

The reward was for researching the plaque smearers who were against peaceful coexistence, as well as peace- and those who are hostile to understanding Memorial molester zugesagt.

With success!

A few weeks later, the observant police officer was able to Matthias kotnik give useful advice to the executive in his spare time, which led to the investigation of two perpetrators, die die slowenische Bezeichnung auf mehreren Ortstafeln überschmiert hatten.

The reward was paid to Matthias Kotnik today

The investigation of the perpetrators made an important contribution to the further consolidation of the peaceful coexistence of German Carinthians and Slovenian Carinthians, which has been untroubled for years, stressed Chairman Josef Feldner and expressed his hope, that now those troublemakers too, who desecrated the state memorial in Klagenfurt and the anniversary memorial in Miklauzhof, ausgeforscht werden.

The KHD promises more for the investigation of the memorial abusers 5.000 Euro reward to be paid. With this, the KHD wants to underline its great interest in sustainable reconciliation and understanding. Im Interesse des Friedens in einer gemeinsamen Heimat Kärnten.

KHD / fritzpress Foto: Reward in front of the office building of the Carinthian Homeland Service paid out from L.. KHD chairman Josef Feldner, Finance officer Walter Leitner, Vice Chairman Franz Jordan and Matthias Kotnik)

Manifest 2020

100 Year anniversary of the Carinthian referendum. Looking back with a look to the future

preamble

• After a painful century and decades of ethnic group dispute,
• the one with Slovenian organizations in May 2005 achieved place sign compromise,
• the on 10. October 2006 commitment expressed in a solemn declaration by the Carinthian consensus group, to work on a climate of mutual trust in the future,
• and the successful cross-border path of understanding and reconciliation in the years that followed,
• wurden mit dem gemeinsamen Gedenken der ehemaligen militärischen Gegner an die Opfer auf beiden Seiten zum 100-Jahr-Jubiläum der Kärntner Volksabstimmung wichtige Voraussetzungen für einen dauerhaften Frieden in einer lange Zeit von heftigen Konflikten geschüttelten Region geschaffen.

The prerequisites for sustainable reconciliation for securing peace

In order to reconcile former opponents, the willingness on both sides is essential. Sustainable reconciliation to secure peace

• but can only be done in a dialogue at eye level,
• without preconditions,
• with willingness, To also think about the position of the other
• und mit dem Mut auch zur Selbstkritik erreicht werden.

That is what makes it possible,

• the changeful and self-sacrificing, of quarrel, Mistrust and mutual aversions to work through history together, mit Abkehr von einer ausschließlich subjektiven Geschichtsbetrachtung.
• This requires the rejection of black and white thinking, associated with readiness, über Nachdenken und Hineindenken zum Umdenken zu gelangen.

Home service and the consensus group have also implemented a rethink

The Carinthian Home Service has these basic principles in and outside the Carinthian Consensus Group in many areas - with shared information- and cultural events and above all with common commemoration of the victims – also implemented, und damit einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Schaffung eines Klimas des gegenseitigen Vertrauens geleistet.

An awareness of tradition and a willingness to reconcile on all sides are not a contradiction in terms

This is what the Carinthian Heimatdienst has at the 100th anniversary of the 2006 In a solemn declaration on the "Day of the Common Home of Carinthia", the Carinthian referendum was proven,

• on the one hand with a grateful reminder of the defensive struggle and subsequent confession of German- and Slovenian-speaking Carinthians for an undivided Carinthia near Austria, associated with the public appreciation of the 1918/20 particularly deserving personalities like Hans Steinacher, but without foregoing criticism that is differentiated over time,
• and on the other hand with renouncing condemnation of those, the 1920 von ihrem demokratischen Recht Gebrauch gemacht und für Jugoslawien gestimmt haben.
  The Carinthian Homeland Service makes this clear, that understanding- und Versöhnungsarbeit mit Respekt vor Kultur und Lebensweise anderer Völker nicht in Widerspruch zu nationalem und kulturellem Selbstbewusstsein stehen.

Es gibt noch viel zu tun.
Because many are still not participating in the endeavors to achieve sustainable reconciliation and peacekeeping, or expressly oppose it

since 2005 former parties to the dispute go through decades of ethnic group conflict, like the Carinthian Homeland Service, der Zentralverband slowenischer Organisationen und die Gemeinschaft der Kärntner Slowenen und Sloweninnen in der Kärntner Konsensgruppe gemeinsam den Weg der Verständigung und Versöhnung.
Implacable circles in the ranks of the Carinthian Slovenes do not go this way, aber auch in vereinzelten Bereichen der Kärntner Heimatverbände.

Das ist in einer Demokratie zu respektieren.
Der Heimatdienst kann aber Eingriffe in vereinsinterne Angelegenheiten nicht widerspruchslos hinnehmen.

Criticism and, if necessary, verbal resistance are appropriate, if

• In some German-Carinthian groups, the way of understanding and reconciliation of the homeland service is condemned as treason without readiness for a clarifying discussion,
• In accordance with national circles in Slovenia irreconcilable denial of the right to homeland service, Hans Steinacher, Without which there would be no undivided Carinthia in Austria today, to be honored on a plaque and when this
• on the other hand keep it silent, that the Carinthian Homeland Service, in the interest of a joint processing of the history of an open confrontation with Steinacher's dark sides during the Nazi era, also allowed harsh critics to have their say in an anthology. And finally, too, that
• Steinacher, who had not been accused of any Nazi crimes, was highly respected as the savior of the Carinthian regional unit throughout the post-war decades across all parties, was auch auf einer Reihe von Gedenktafeln verewigt ist.

The duty to not interfere in areas of tradition must be, without giving up criticism, apply to both sides

If the Carinthian Homeland Service does not deny certain circles in Carinthia and Slovenia the right, the "fight for the northern border" - without revision intentions – to appreciate and renounce any interference in this regard, dann erwarten wir auch den uneingeschränkten Respekt dieser Kreise vor unserem österreichbewussten Abstimmungsgedenken.
Nevertheless, our criticism of wrongdoing and negligence on the part of the other side will not prevent us from doing so, weiterhin offen auch auf alle derzeit noch Abseits stehenden Verständigungsverweigerer zuzugehen und diesen den Dialog ohne Vorbedingungen anzubieten.

With KÄRNTEN NEW THINKING, the German-Slovenian Carinthian consensus group, in cooperation with the Carinthian Homeland Service, began the path of understanding, mit KÄRNTEN NEU GESTALTEN soll nun die Versöhnungsarbeit fortgesetzt und weiter ausgebaut werden.

From the KHD board on 28. October 2020 decided unanimously
Chairman Dr. Josef Feldner

This morning the homeland service chairman laid Josef Feldner with deputy chairman Franz Jordan and the member of the Carinthian Consensus Group Marjan storm a wreath at the Jewish cemetery in Klagenfurt in grateful memory of the Jewish Carinthian defensive fighter Robert PRICE nieder.

In his commemorative words Josef Feldner towards the terrible fate, das Juden unter dem NS-Terrorregime erleiden mussten.

Feldner recalled the invaluable achievements, die die autochthone jüdische Bevölkerung in Österreich-Ungarn und danach in allen Lebensbereichen erbracht hatte.

In the First World War, continued Feldner, Jews fought side by side with the other Austrian soldiers until the end. Many of them fell, was ihnen aber Jahrzehnte hindurch nicht gedankt wurde.

Jews also played a key role in the Carinthian defensive campaign. Today, on behalf of everyone, we want to commemorate the Carinthian defensive fighter Robert Preis and include all victims of the Holocaust in our remembrance, so Feldner abschließend.

Marjan storm pointed out, that the Jewish population in Carinthia was the first, who was expelled and persecuted. And storm on:

From this follows, that we must always include all victim groups in our remembrance

In the picture: Josef Feldner(Image rights: Fritzpress)

The upcoming events of the Carinthian Homeland Service were reported in various media. So the announces “Small newspaper” below the title “Lasers instead of fire – Spectacular contribution by the Heimatdienst to the Carinthian anniversary year” the big laser show of the KHD on the evening of 9. Oktobers an.

ORF-Kärnten also reports on the numerous projects of the Heimatdienst:

“Home Service plans virtual events

The Carinthian Homeland Service has its plans for the anniversary year on Friday 100 Years of the Carinthian referendum announced. They rely on virtual events via social media. Since the consensus group's declaration 2006 there is a climate of mutual trust, was stressed.”

Of course, the Kärntner Kronen Zeitung also reports on the events of the Kärntner Heimatdienst:

“The Carinthian Homeland Service leaves – of course also due to corona – with time. Because it is in memory of the hundreds of bonfires before the referendum day on this year 10. Ok­tober 1920 there can be no similar activity, you rely on modern technology. In many places in Carinthia, projections of such fires are made the night before 100 Years to remember.”

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)