Arthur Lemisch

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Arthur Lemisch memorial taffeta in St. Veit
Villas Seeblick and Seewarte in Pörtschach am Wörther See

Arthur Lemisch (born February 6, 1865 in St. Veit an der Glan , † October 29, 1953 there ) was an Austrian politician . As " Provincial Administrator " he was in front of the provisional provincial assembly of Carinthia from 1918 to 1921 , and from 1927 to 1931 he was governor of the state. He is the grandfather of Friederun Pleterski .

Life

Lemisch was born as the offspring of the oldest Carinthian ironworks family Rauscher von Stainberg and the son of a doctor. His mother was Fanni Lemisch, who from 1888 built the Rainerhof on Neuer Platz in Klagenfurt and the listed villas Villa Seewarte and Villa Seeblick in Pörtschach . His brother was Josef Lemisch .

Lemisch attended the grammar school in Klagenfurt, where he became a member of the pcB! Tauriska Klagenfurt became. He studied law and political science as well as philosophy in Innsbruck and Graz . He was also enrolled in agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . During his studies he became a member of the Innsbruck fraternity Suevia in 1882 and of the Stiria Graz fraternity in 1885 . He was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD .

After his studies he became a landowner and worked as a lawyer . From 1896 he was a German national member of the Landtäflichen Kuria in the Carinthian state parliament , from 1897 to 1906 also a member of the Austrian Reichsrat, at that time a member of the German People's Party and actively involved in the Badeni crisis . Arthur Lemisch took part in the duel with Prime Minister Kazimierz Badeni on September 25, 1897 as the second of the radical German national parliamentarian Karl Hermann Wolf . In the Reichsrat, Lemisch tried to save the Carinthian iron industry without being heard. In 1908 the family's last blast furnace “Pulcheria” in Mosinz / Hüttenberg was blown out. At the state exhibition in 1995, the industrial monuments were combined into a memorable work of art by the architect Günther Domenig .

In 1906 Arthur Lemisch turned his back on Vienna and devoted himself entirely to reuniting the Carinthian farmers to form a German-free union, which won 50% of the votes in the first general state elections in 1907.

After the First World War , Carinthia declared its accession to the newly formed Republic of German Austria on November 11, 1918 . Arthur Lemisch was elected as the "provincial administrator" of a first, still provisional provincial assembly of the federal state of Carinthia. He held this office until July 22, 1921. In doing so, he directed the fate of the country during the critical period of the Carinthian defensive struggle and the subsequent referendum. He is one of the founders of the Landbund , in which he was not a member.

From June 15, 1927 to January 21, 1931 Lemisch - as a non-party - was again at the top of Carinthian politics, this time as governor . He was seen as an advocate of German national independence, but not as a Nazi sympathizer. He can be described as a “German-romantic Carinthian”, whose roots lie in the Slovene and northern Italian cultures as well as in the old German-Carinthian trade tradition. The career of his enlightened ancestors makes him a typical offspring of the enlightened German Carinthian upper middle class, whose development is closely related to the importance of Protestantism and the Counter-Reformation in Carinthia.

Arthur Lemisch grave in Dreifaltigkeit / Frauenstein

Aftermath

In numerous cities in Carinthia, the respective Dr.-Arthur-Lemisch-Platz (e.g. in Klagenfurt , Spittal an der Drau ) or Arthur-Lemisch-Straße (e.g. in Sankt Veit an der Glan , Villach ) is a reminder the politician. At the same time, little reminds of his efforts to assimilate the Slovene-speaking part of the Carinthian population. On October 20, 1920, Lemisch wrote in Carinthian Landsmannschaft No. 80 about those Carinthian Slovenes who voted against South Carinthia remaining with Austria in the 1920 referendum: “We have only one generation time to lead these seduced people back to Carinthia. With German culture and Carinthian cosiness, we want to have done the work in a generation. ”And further:“ But before we begin the work of love, let us first complete the work of retribution. We want to be loose and single to all those who desecrate the sacred peace of our homeland. "

His student association pcB! Tauriska Klagenfurt placed a memorial stone for him in 1978 on Dr.-Arthur-Lemisch-Platz in Klagenfurt. This was already damaged years ago during the snow removal and is waiting to be re-erected (the reason is allegedly disputes over the location).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family tree in: Friederun Pleterski: Heimwärts Reisen Verlag Styria Regional, April 2012
personal data
SURNAME Lemisch, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Veit an der Glan
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1953
Place of death Sankt Veit an der Glan