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)

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)

ARGE Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations (ARGE KHT)

► The working group of the Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations is a non-partisan loose platform, about common positions and activities of the Carinthian homeland- and develop traditional associations. Sie hat keinen Vereinscharakter und keinerlei rechtliche Legitimation für eine Einflussnahme auf die jeweiligen inneren Entscheidungen der teilnehmenden Verbände oder für eine gemeinsame Vertretung nach außen.
► Your purpose is, through joint analysis of those developments, the homeland- and traditional associations and possibly joint statements in public, as well as through the organization of joint activities the importance and potential of the homeland- und Traditionsverbände zu stärken.
► Participation and cooperation in the working group of the Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations is in principle possible for all Carinthian associations, die legal im Vereinsregister aufscheinen und im weitesten Sinne dem Kärntner Landesbewusstsein und Patriotismus verpflichtet sind.
► If necessary, the working group meets at the invitation of one of the participating associations, wobei der Einladende den Vorsitz führt und Zeit und Ort der Sitzung vorschlägt.

The opinion was unanimous, that one faces the Carinthian public, especially with regard to state politics, would have more weight, if we would come together on essential issues. During this conversation, the common will became clear, to overcome old content differences and personal animosities, so that we can jointly devote ourselves to the issues that are important for our home country. In particular, home service and defense fighters' association have recently been able to, die Differenzen der vergangenen Jahre beizulegen.
Representatives of the Working Group of the Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften in Carinthia also took part in this meeting, as well as representatives of the Gottscheer and Transylvanian Saxons. Also representatives of the comradeship association and the Carinthian country team, sowie Vertreter der Kärntner Windischen waren anwesend.

Together they agreed on it, a loose “working group of the Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations"., die künftighin gemeinsame Anliegen und Projekte beraten und organisieren soll.

It will be a central concern of this working group, commemorating the referendum on 10. October in Klagenfurt's Landhaushof to give the home associations more weight and a voice again. As is well known, the memorial for the Carinthian unity goes back to an idea and a foundation of these home associations. In recent years, the representatives of the home associations were only allowed to appear there as extras, ihre Stimme erheben konnten sie aber nicht mehr.