Commemorating the defensive struggle and referendum of the Carinthian homeland- and traditional associations in the Klagenfurt Landhaushof on the day before the state holiday took place for the second time. Welcomed by the President of the State Parliament, Reinhard Rohr, and the Mayor of Klagenfurt, Christian Scheideer, came in front of the Carinthian Unity Monument, As is well known, the home associations include over a hundred Carinthian patriots, um bei Klängen der Sängerrunde Emmersdorf und der Khevenhüller Kapelle ein feierliches Gedenken zu begehen.

After the greetings from KHD – Chairman Andreas Mölzer, who also had critical words about the commemorative year 2025 found, and the chairman of the Kanaltaler Kulturverein Karl-Heinz Moschitz, the youth speech by Villach student Helena Wallner was the first highlight of the event. Sie zeichnete die Vision eines freien und sicheren Kärntner Heimatlandes für die Jugend.

The ceremonial speech was given by former state governor Gerhard Dörfler,
who once again pleaded for understanding and reconciliation between the German Carinthian majority population and the Slovenian ethnic group. Sein leidenschaftliches Bekenntnis für ein zukunftsweisendes Heimatgefühl und für eine Erhaltung des Friedens im Lande in der Zeit weltweiter Krisen beeindruckte die Zuhörer.

A church blessing, The traditional wreath-laying ceremony and the Carinthian local song concluded the successful event, which was routinely moderated by Bruno Burchhard. Although this was boycotted by the Carinthian Defense Fighters Association - they were not ready, to accept the keynote speaker Gerhard Dörfler – the homeland- und Traditions-Verbände des Landes damit neuerlich ein Zeichen des gelebten Patriotismus und der Kärntner Heimatliebe setzen.

ORF “Kärnten today” from 9. Oktober 2024

Around 300 Guests gathered in the morning 9. October in the Carinthian country house. The working group of Carinthian traditional associations invited people to the site of Carinthian unity, die im Eigentum des Kärtner Heimatdienstes und des Kärntner Abwehrkämpferbundes steht zum Gedenken die Opfer des Kärntner Abwehrkampfes und zur Feier der Kärntner Volksabstimmung ein.

After greetings from the First President of the Carinthian State Parliament, Reinhart Rohr, and the mayor of Klagenfurt, representatives of the Carinthian Defensive Fighters' Association and the Carinthian Windische, among others, commemorated the victims of the defensive struggle. The warning speech, to fill up old ditches, said the chairman of the Carinthian Homeland Service Andreas Mölzer. Hans Steinacher's great-grandson was in charge of the youth, Bernd Steinacher in seine Rede in die Zukunft.

Nach der Niederlegung wurde die würdige Feierlichkeit mit dem Kärntner Heimatlied beendet.

Report in the Kleine Zeitung (6. October 2024) in advance of the event:

FROM THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE:

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: at escort Seite 3

10. October

• Our referendum commemoration Pages 4-6

Old conflicts – new collaborations

• The scientific KHD symposium Page 7-8
• Meeting of cultures in Bleiburg Kulturni Cathedral Seite 9
• Peter Wasserheurer: Discuss old conflicts comprehensively Pages 10-11
• Marjan storm: Some thoughts on the 10. October celebrations 2023 Seite 12
• Erwin Angerer: Slovenia-Austria: "Without Borders" pages 14-15
• Filip Ogris-Martic: Carinthia as a business location Pages 15-17
• Wolfgang Pucher: Carinthia's industry and its international connections Pages 18-21
• Christof Zernatto im Interview pages 20-21
• Presseschau Page 22-23

Our Carinthia

• Civil defense: Carinthia is well equipped Pages 24-25
• Rudolf Schober im Interview Seite 24

From Carinthia's history

• Reinhold Gasper
  • 10. October – commemoration of victims Seite 26
  • 1754 Storm disaster on Lake Wörthersee Seite 27
  • Benediktinermarkt: 230 years anniversary Seite 27

This edition of “Kärntner” is of course entirely under the sign of 10. October. We report on the commemorations, in which the home service took part and also document our thoughts for deserving members of the KHD, an deren Gräber Bouquets niedergelegt wurden.
The focus of this issue is also on the scientific symposium, which the home service carries out every year in September. This time it was all about “old conflicts and new collaborations.”. The keynote speeches by the speakers and discussants are reproduced in full. On the one hand, the statements by the KAB historian Wassertheurer and the Slovenian Stergar on the subject of “old conflicts”. And on the other hand, the comments from the manager Ogris-Matic, from FPÖ boss Angerer and the representative of the Pucher Industrial Association on the topic of “new cooperations”. Darüber hinaus findet sich ein Interview mit Alt-Landeshauptmann Zernatto.
Finally there is an interview with Rudi Schober, the head of civil defense in Carinthia and historical reports from our employee Reinhold Gasper

• KHD chairman Andreas Mölzer: at escort Page 4-5

KHD-Activ

• Home help for victims of storms in the Ge-tertal valley Seite 6
• The KHD project 2022: From battlefield to peace region side 7–13
• Andreas Mölzer: Peace begins at home side 7
• Governor Kaiser: courage to share side 8
• President Rohr: Peace as a guarantee for a successful future side 12

From the associations

• Slovenian President visits pages 14-15
• Bruno Burchhart: German Poles in need Page 16-17

Our Carinthia

• Andreas Mölzer: 10 Theses on the storming of the place-name sign side 18–19
• Marjan storm: 50 Years town sign storming in Carinthia pages 20-21
• Josef Feldner: "Old Contrasts and New Images of History side 22–24
• Marjan storm: Turnersee gyre side 24–25

Crisis herds

• Bernhard Tomaschitz: Geopolitical proxy conflict pages 26-28
• Reinhold Gasper: The last testimonies of the Abwer fighters pages 28-29
• Bernhard Tomaschitz: White spot in the Balkans side 28–30
• Presseschau side 31–33
• letters to the editor side 34–35

The fifth time this year is the "Carinthian" in its new presentation as a free newspaper, personally addressed to more than 10.000 Kärntner Haushalte.

And again we inform about the diverse work of the KHD, about our services, but also about arguments, in which the home service is involved. You can also read about current developments in Carinthia and the Alps-Adriatic region, especially about the peace policy in this area and of course about the problems of coexistence of the German Carinthian majority and the Slovenian minority in the country. Darüber hinaus berichten wir über aktuelle Volksgruppenfragen aus anderen Bereichen Europas und überdies über andere aktuelle Probleme aus Politik Wirtschaft und Kultur.

It's clear, that the "Carinthian" sees itself as a non-partisan patriotic platform, but also address ethnic group issues from other areas of Europe, where he loves Carinthia's homeland, für österreichischen Patriotismus und wohlverstandene europäische Gesinnung eintritt.

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

The on 3. October of the Carinthian Heimatdienst unveiled the anniversary monument "Common Homeland Carinthia", that should include both population groups equally, to finally overcome old distrust and mutual aversions, was made in the morning hours of Christmas Eve(!) again smeared. With black paint and the Slovenian word "Sramota" sprayed in red (shame).

The attack, apparently by a small group of Slovenian nationalist extremists, is aimed at this, das friedliche Zusammenleben beider Bevölkerungsgruppen in Kärnten zu torpedieren.

That although in the anniversary year that has now ended, also repeated by the Carinthian Homeland Service of the many Slovenes loyal to Carinthia, who voted for Austria, had been thanked, without judging them, die damals für Jugoslawien stimmten.

Der Kärntner Heimatdienst wird sich auch durch Gewaltaktionen slowenischer Extremisten nicht vom auch künftigen Weg der Verständigung und Versöhnung abhalten lassen ohne dabei seine traditionsbewusste Aufgabenstellung aufzugeben.

Let me make it clear once more:

If we show respect for one another without intent to revise the boundaries, on the one hand for the memory in Slovenia of the fighters around the northern border, dann erwarten wir andererseits auch denselben Respekt für unser pro-österreichisches Abstimmungsgedenken in Kärnten.

And this commemoration of ours also indispensably closes the undisputed motor in the intellectual struggle for Austria, Hans Steinacher a, without concealing its ambivalent relationship to National Socialism, like in our documentation presented by the deputy chairman Andreas Mölzer at the unveiling of the monument “Hans Steinacher in light and shadow. A Carinthian of his time " offengelegt wird.

Chairman Josef Feldner

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)

Common home Carinthia

1920 12. September 2020

The big Herzogstuhl meeting for the Carinthian referendum

1920 under the open Carinthian sky, today virtually on the Internet and in social media. With

• Cultural groups from Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli
• Historical images and film clips
• Greetings from Carinthian politics as well
• Policy statements by Dr. Josef Feldner and Dr. Marjan storm

Am 12. September 2020, from 12 Noon, you can watch the event online here!

In the picture: Josef Feldner and Marjan Sturm before the video recording for 12. September 2020 (Image rights: Fritzpress)