“Defensive Carinthia”:

wrm — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:03:58 +0000

Scientific symposium highlighted national defense, Neutrality and spiritual values

The Carinthian Homeland Service set the tone with a top-class scientific symposium under the title “Defensive Carinthia – National Defense between Neutrality and Fear of War”. (KHD) in the Europahaus Klagenfurt a clear sign of a discussion on security policy, historisches Bewusstsein und die geistige Verteidigung der Heimat.

Klagenfurt. KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer opened the event and in his greetings emphasized the importance of a strong historical awareness and a self-confident Carinthia in a time of growing international uncertainty. Particularly in view of global crises, we need to focus more on questions
national defense, der Neutralitä t und der kulturellen Identität auseinandersetzen.

The historian Prof. Dr. In her lecture, Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld offered an exciting overview of Carinthia's national defense in a historical context. She referred to it, that the distinctive Carinthian self-confidence is essentially the result of centuries of
experience of constant threat and possible division from outside. The history of Carinthia is therefore closely linked to the will, your own homeland, Kultur und Identität zu bewahren.

Brigadier a.D. Günter Polajnar dedicated himself to the topic “National defense and military service in neutral Austria”. He emphasized, that Austria's neutrality is by no means a given, but requires clear political will, which is currently all too missing. Credible neutrality also requires sufficient financial resources and willingness, to invest in national military defense. Ohne entsprechende sicherheitspolitische Prioritäten könne Neutralitat langfristig nicht wirksam abgesichert werden.

Dr. Bruno Burchhart spoke about the “defense of Carinthia’s spiritual values” and emphasized, that national defense should not only be understood in military terms. Preserving cultural identity is just as crucial, historical memory and social values, die den inneren Zusammenhalt einer Gemeinschaft stärken.

The event was moderated by National Council member Wendelin Mölzer, der durch das Symposium führte und die unterschiedlichen Themenbereiche miteinander verband.

The Kanaltaler Kulturverein acted as project partners, die ARGE der Kärntner Heimatund Traditionsverbände sowie die OUsterreichische Landsmannschaft mit.

The symposium made it clear, that security issues, der Neutralität und der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung aktueller denn je sind und sowohl politische als auch gesellschaftliche Verantwortung erfordern.

KHD Ukraine Aid

wrm — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:13:01 +0000

Heimatdienst invites Ukrainian youth choir and dance group from Transcarpathia to Carinthia

At the invitation of the Carinthian homeland service, a group of young Ukrainian girls is currently on summer vacation in Carinthia. Neben Urlaub traten die jungen Damen mit ihrem Chor und ihrer Tanzgruppe bei mehreren Vorführungen unter anderem in Klagenfurt und in Villach vor einem begeisterten Publikum auf.

The prelude to this was the opening of an exhibition about the Ukrainian Germans in the vaulted gallery of the Europahaus in Klagenfurt. There the young girls were raised by the Carinthian governor Peter Kaiser, was warmly welcomed to Carinthia by the head of KHD Andreas Mölzer and the former governor of the house, Christoph Zernatto. Neben den genannten waren zahlreiche hochrangige Vertreter der Kärntner Politik und der Kärntner heimattreuen Verbände zugegen.

In addition to international understanding, der Unterstützung deutscher Minderheiten im Ausland steht bei der Reise der jungen Damen aber auch eine Auszeit in ruhigen Gefilden von den harten Zeiten in ihrer ukrainischen Heimat im Vordergrund.

Donate, Donate, Donate! But for whom?

wrm — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:38:16 +0000

The friends and supporters of the Carinthian home service, mostly yes as inclined readers of the “Carinthian”, are again and again, also in this edition, confronted with calls for donations (see below on the page). In our case it means donations in general for the work of the homeland service. Or donate to the Carpathian Germans, whose children we want to invite to Carinthia after the Ukraine war. Or even donations for the victims of the disaster in the Carinthian valley. At some point, even the extremely idealistic and helpful supporter of the Heimatdienst may feel uncomfortable. Especially then, wenn er auch mit zahlreichen anderen Spendenaufrufen konfrontiert ist.
There is the extremely important and (maybe not so much in the case of Corona) meritorious Red Cross, that calls for donations. Then there are organizations like “Neighbors in Need”, "Amnesty International" and of course the countless politically correct NGOs like "Doctors Without Borders" and the like, die sich der Willkommenskultur und der Aufnahme von möglichst vielen Asylsuchenden und ähnlichen zeitgeistigen Anliegen verschrieben haben.
They all want donations and more donations. Many of them have fairly clearly recognizable political goals and can also be assigned more or less clearly to political groups or parties. The politically correct ones, NGOs of the supposedly progressive civil society committed to the left zeitgeist usually have the Greens or other left-wing groups in the background. Calls for donations for election campaigns - such as now before the presidential election - are of course clearly political, beziehungsweise persönlich zuzuordnen.
We, than the representatives of the Carinthian homeland service, strive, to act absolutely impartially in our work. We have Carinthian patriots from all political camps, from all generations and of course also from both ethnic groups of the country are welcome. It is the goal of our work and that of our fundraisers, to serve the concerns of Carinthia and the Carinthians within the scope of our modest possibilities. In addition, we are supporting old Austrian, deutschsprachiger Minderheiten auf dem Territorium der ehemaligen Habsburger-Monarchie verpflichtet.
From some organizations, who call for donations, heard, that the administrative apparatus and the functionaries devour the lion's share of the donations with their expenses. At the Carinthian home service, the officials work on an absolutely voluntary basis and the administrative apparatus is as lean as it could not be leaner. And besides, we try, Conduct fundraisers with specific, manageable and achievable goals, as this time in the case of the Carinthian area valley, wo wir mit Ihrer Unterstützung die Sanierung des durch Vermurung zerstörten Sportplatzes für die Gegentaler Kinder unterstützen wollen.
Prinzipiell aber ist für den Spender jede von ihm getätigte Spende auch so etwas wie eine Unterstützungserklärung für die Arbeit und die Ziele der Spenden werbenden Vereinigung.
In our case, this is patriotic work and these are patriotic goals, die mir die wir mit Hilfe ihrer Spenden verwirklichen wollen.

We need your donation

Every euro strengthens our cause in Carinthia!
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
BIC: RZKTAT2K
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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Krieg – The home service as a patriotic NGO