Association program – The home service as a patriotic NGO

The new association program of the Heimatdienst

At the am 8. December 2012 At the annual general meeting held, the delegates unanimously approved the new association program drawn up by the board.
The new program takes into account the long road from confrontation to understanding.

The most important basic principles and goals aimed at peace and understanding without national self-abandonment are:

Of the Carinthian homeland service is a non-partisan, Non-profit association for the direct democratic representation of political, economic, cultural and social interests of the Carinthian population in the run-up to politics. Special concerns of the Carinthian Homeland Service are the preservation of the territorial, the social and economic integrity of our Carinthian home based on a future-oriented, patriotic awareness of Austria, and the cultivation of our German mother tongue in a peacefully united Europe of the father countries.
Of the Carinthian homeland service advocates diversity of opinion within our legal system as an indispensable basic democratic principle.
Of the 1957 re-established Carinthian homeland service sees immediately after the results of the Carinthian referendum have been announced 1920 the call of the historic Carinthian Heimatdienst to “Understand, Reconciliation and Peace ", a continuing legacy for the future.
Of the Carinthian homeland service is committed to maintaining the Carinthian identity and culture in a contemporary manner, also open to the culture of the indivisible Slovene ethnic group, which is an inseparable part of the Carinthian population. He advocates the promotion of lively, down-to-earth customs as part of our common culture in Carinthia.
Awareness of history is a basic requirement for national and cultural identity. Of the Carinthian homeland service speaks out, however, against the maintenance of one-sided and divisive images of history and is committed to a joint reappraisal of history in Carinthia with the Slovene ethnic group to eliminate the fears that still exist here and there and the resulting mistrust and aversions in the interests of sustainable reconciliation.
Successful reappraisal of history also makes it possible to commemorate victims together with the Slovene ethnic group and thus to commemorate all victims of war in Carinthia, Tyranny and Post War Crimes, thus to the partisan victims as well as to the victims of National Socialism. In this sense, the Carinthian homeland service work for an intensification of the common memory of victims.
Of the Carinthian homeland service is committed to national and cultural self-confidence without aggressiveness and chauvinistic arrogance on the basis of a solid identity of German Carinthians and Slovenian Carinthians. National self-confidence does not contradict being open to other identities.
Of the Carinthian homeland service advocates a common sense of home. Home includes all Carinthians, across linguistic differences, free from nationalistic claims, free from historical resentment, without mutual aversions, without suspicion and without prejudice.
Of the Carinthian homeland service stands for the consolidation of a value consciousness. This includes a commitment to traditional Christian-occidental values based on the reason- and civil liberties and a consolidated national identity.
AND to all-round dialogue without preconditions. The one between home service and Slovenian organizations as former opponents since 2005 Guided dialogue was a prerequisite for common ground that has now been successfully practiced in a wide variety of areas. This dialogue is already seen well beyond Carinthia as a model for conflict resolution in national and international areas.
Of the Carinthian homeland service has 2006 together with Slovenian organizations in a "Solemn Declaration" to create a climate of mutual trust. He will continue to work towards this goal in and outside the Carinthian consensus group by clarifying the facts.
Of the Carinthian homeland service, for whom a peaceful future for all people in this country is a particular concern, also faces the challenges, immigration brings with it.
In the interests of securing social peace in Carinthia, the Carinthian homeland service following principles:
- At the top is the demand for a uniform European immigration policy, which must be designed as restrictively as possible and based on the needs of the required workforce.
- Asylum is a humanitarian imperative. However, asylum abuse must be punished rigorously.
- Immigrants have to adapt to our way of life. Only adaptation prevents cultural clashes and social conflicts. However, adaptation does not mean assimilation.
- Integration is an obligation for immigrants. Our laws have to observe these, to learn our language and to respect our culture. Integration prevents the formation of parallel societies.
- The local population also has to contribute to integration by openly approaching immigrants who are already integrated or who are ready to integrate.
- Of the Carinthian homeland service is also committed to intercultural dialogue, to strengthen the willingness to integrate, to build trust and prevent ghettos.
- To be able to demand credible respect for one's own culture, the autochthonous population has to live it self-confidently.

Conscious of our national identity that has evolved over time, the Carinthian Heimatdienst will continue to be the old Austrian German ethnic group in the future, especially in Slovenia, but also in the other successor states of the Habsburg monarchy, support and promote.
Of the Carinthian homeland service calls for greater financial support for culture- and educational work for the benefit of the German ethnic group in Slovenia by the Republic of Slovenia, but also through Austria.
The state of Carinthia and the Republic of Austria as a whole, are obliged, to ensure the long-term existence of the German old Austrians in the EU member state Slovenia.
Furthermore, the constitutional recognition as an ethnic group of the German-speaking people who have settled down to earth on the territory of today's Slovenia for many centuries, as has long been the case in other successor states of Yugoslavia.
Finally, the Carinthian homeland service in the Federal Chancellery a permanent contact point for the total 300.000 To set up members of the Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften with the involvement of the Carinthian Homeland Service.
Of the Carinthian homeland service put his public relations work, which has always been financed from his own resources, in the service of the general public, especially to eliminate any remaining fears and to contribute to understanding. This also shows that it is a non-profit organization.
In the coming years he wants Carinthian homeland service still strengthens its charitable, not just continue the material subsidy policy and expand it to new areas. A special concern will be the promotion of youth projects and the support of youth groups as well as other groups, who are ready, to work in accordance with the goals of the association.
Of the Carinthian homeland service stressed, that for European integration in 21. In the 20th century there was no real alternative. A peacefully united Europe of the fatherlands, an association of sovereign member states, a united continent of self-determined peoples, in which the historically grown concept of home exists in the traditional regions and ethnic minorities are integrated with the greatest possible autonomy, is the goal of this integration. Federal, In a subsidiary and liberal manner internally, this European union of states should be able to represent European interests as strongly as possible externally in the field of world politics.

In addition, the Carinthian homeland service under Europe not just the European Union, but a Europe, that is not determined by globalization on the one hand and EU centralism on the other. Of the Carinthian homeland service advocates a comprehensive Europe.