Anton Korošec

Anton Korošec

Anton Korošec (1900)

Anton Korošec (born May 12, 1872 in Biserjane, Lower Styria , † December 14, 1940 in Belgrade ) was a Catholic priest and Yugoslav politician .

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Anton Korošec was born in the Lower Styrian hamlet of Wisserian / Biserjane near St. Georgen an der Stainz (today Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici in Slovenia), which has 18 houses . Father Janez Korošec and his wife Neža, née Ploj, ran a small farm there. From 1878 to 1883 he attended the German-speaking elementary school in St. Georgen. In the autumn of 1884 he switched to the Pettauer Landesgymnasium , which he left again in 1885 to continue his education at the Marburg State High School until the final exam in July 1892. In the autumn of 1892 Korošec began a three-year philosophical and theological study in the prince-bishop's seminary of the Lavant diocese in Marburg an der Drau. In July 1895 he was ordained a Catholic priest by the Marburg bishop Michael Napotnik .

From August 1896 Korošec worked as a chaplain in the small Marian pilgrimage site Süssenberg near Lemberg (today Sladka gora in Slovenia) in pastoral care. After completing his doctorate at the University of Graz , which he completed in 1905 with a dissertation De Sacramentorum causalitate seu utrum sacramenta novae legis causent gratiam moraliter an physice , he devoted himself primarily to politics and took a leading role in the Catholic People's Party (Katoliška narodna stranka) a.

As their representative, he was elected to the Austrian House of Representatives in the constituency of Styria 28 in the elections in 1907 and in July 1911 in the constituency of Styria 27 and was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives until November 1918 (with an interruption due to the First World War , as the House of Representatives until May 1917 was not convened). In 1917 and 1918 Korošec was chairman of the Association of South Slav MPs.

In the state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs proclaimed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary (this existed from October 29 to November 30, 1918), Korošec was chairman of the National Council meeting in Zagreb . When the state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was merged with the Kingdom of Serbia on December 1, 1918, when it became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , Korošec became Deputy Prime Minister for a short time in 1919.

Korošec, who pursued a conservative policy, continued to stand up for the interests of the Slovenes , and on July 8, 1928, succeeded Velimir Vukićević as the only non-Serbian Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . In his government, which was in office until January 7, 1929, he also took over the office of Minister of the Interior .

After the state was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on October 3, 1929, Korošec temporarily lost its influence and was in an internment camp on the Croatian island of Hvar during the last dictatorial rule of King Alexander I in 1933 . After the king's assassination on October 9, 1934, Anton Korošec was released; he returned to politics and was again interior minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović between 1935 and 1938 .

literature

• Feliks J. Bister: “Your Majesty, it's too late…”, Anton Korošec and Slovenian politics in the Vienna Reichsrat until 1918, Vienna; Cologne; Weimar; 1995, ISBN 3-205-98194-4

swell

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 867.

Web links

Commons : Anton Korošec  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Anton Korošec in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Central Statistical Commission (ed.): Special-Orts-Repertorium von Steiermark . Vienna 1883, p. 158.
2. ↑ Feliks J. Bister, Majestät, p. 14 ff.
3. ↑ Feliks J. Bister, Majestät, p. 24 ff.
4. ↑ Feliks J. Bister, Majestät, p. 30
5. ↑ Austrian Library Association, general catalog