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FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE:

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: Heimat braucht Arbeitsplätze 5

KHD-Activ

• Franz Jordan: Fest der Freude 6
• Jahresfeier des Kanaltaler Kulturvereins 7
• Ein Ausflug mit heimatverbundenen Freunden 7
• KHD-Projekt 2023: Alte Konflikte – Neue Kooperationen 8

From the associations

• Prague vs Liechtenstein 9–10
• obituaries:
  • Rosemarie Koletnik 10
  • Georg Scheichenbauer 11
• New board: Kulturverein der Deutschsprachigen Volksgruppen Slowenien 11

Our Carinthia

• Walter Tributsch: Enormous future potential 12–14
• Bernhard Tomaschitz: When mining was the main thing 15–17
• Gerhard Doerfler: Project Koralm Tunnel - new southern runway! 19–22
• Matthew Krenn: Carinthia needs the Bund 23-25

From Carinthia's history

• Reinhold Gasper: Erste Koralmbahn 26

The fourth edition of the "Carinthian" this year is again dealing with a current topic. As is well known, at the beginning of the year we asked the country's campaigning political parties about their position with regard to the home associations. In the second issue of the year, we gave the next generation of Carinthians a chance to speak, so they let us know, why they stay in the country. So it was about the urgent problem of emigration, the "brain drain" from the country. In the third edition of the "Kärntner" we have our annual commemoration for the victims of war, Gewaltherrschaft und Partisanenterror in den Mittelpunkt gestellt.

And now, in the fourth edition of this year, is about Carinthia as a business location. Only the economy creates jobs. And home without the people here having the opportunity, to earn their daily bread, so to have work, there is not any. For this purpose, our Walter Tributsch, a renowned, business journalist, die aktuelle Situation des Wirtschaftsstandorts Kärnten untersucht.

Bernhard Tomaschitz, as did a renowned journalist from Carinthia, has examined the historical development of Carinthia as a business location. And contributions from the Vice President of the Federal Chamber of Commerce, the mayor of Bad Kleinkirchheim, Matthew Krenn, und dem Altlandeshauptmann Gerhard Dörfler über die Koralmbahn runden das Thema ab.

The infrastructure is also important for Carinthia as a business location, So the integration of the country into the large Austrian and European transport networks is of crucial importance. And the Koralmbahn with its extension, the Semmering Railway, finally brings a modern and efficient connection of Carinthia to the federal capital and the central European area, a project of the century, das ohne die Initiative der ehemaligen Landeshauptleute Jörg Haider und Gerhard Dörfler kaum realisiert worden wäre.

Accordingly, the next scientific symposium of the Carinthian homeland service, that on 16. September of the year is to take place in the Europahaus in Klagenfurt, in addition to the processing of historical conflicts, the problems of Carinthia as a business location have as a topic. From our point of view, homeland service means not only being a traditional bearer of defensive struggles and referendums and not only representing the position of the German Carinthian majority population in the Carinthian borderland conflict, it also means, sich den aktuellen Problemen der Kärntner Heimat und den aktuellen Herausforderungen der heutigen Gesellschaft im Lande zu stellen.

In addition, of course, you will read reports about other associations in the current issue of our magazine, as usual, specifically about the activities of the Gottscheers and the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft. Von Interesse dürfte in diesem Zusammenhang auch die juristische Auseinandersetzung des Adelshauses Liechtenstein mit den tschechischen Behörden sein.

With this in mind, we wish all friends and supporters of the Carinthian home service a nice and peaceful summer and interesting reading with the "Carinthian". Bleiben Sie uns gewogen und unterstützen Sie weiterhin unsere Arbeit für unsere gemeinsame Kärntner Heimat.