Ingomar Pust

Ingomar Eduard Pust (born October 10, 1912 in Villach ; † February 10, 1998 in Keutschach am See ) was an Austrian officer , mountaineer , writer and journalist who worked for several Austrian daily newspapers. He came from a family of civil servants from Villach and was a member of a Catholic student union (Tauriskia Villach in the MKV). He spent his childhood in Gorizia and put at the Villach Higher Technical Institute the Matura from. After this technical training as an engineer , he became an officer in 1933 and took part in the suppression of the National Socialist July coup in Carinthia in 1934 .

During the Second World War he was battery chief and most recently a division adjutant in the flak . After 1945 he became a journalist for the Kärntner Volkszeitung and wrote several books for which he was heavily attacked in some cases. His book Titostern über Kärnten 1942–1945 was characterized as an anti- partisan pamphlet containing “violent detailed descriptions” of various liquidations of “German caretakers” by Slovenian partisans.

Pust was a member of the right-wing extremist Ulrichsberg Community and the German national Carinthian Homeland Service . In 1967 he was awarded the state prize for journalistic achievements in the interests of national intellectual defense . For years he worked as an editor and deputy editor-in-chief of the Kärntner Volkszeitung and columnist for the Kärntner edition of the Kronenzeitung . His columns there were on the verge of revisionism . He also published in right-wing extremist magazines such as the Aula .

Pust died on February 10, 1998 in the Reauz district of Keutschach and was buried in the local cemetery in Keutschach am See.

Fonts

• South Africa in the field of fire . Austrian publishing house, Klagenfurt 1975.
• Small guide to the western Julian Alps and the mountains of the Isonzo Front 1915–17 . Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-7633-3350-9 .
• The stone front. On the trail of the mountain war in the Julian Alps . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz u. Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 978-3-7020-0352-4 (last there in 2005, ISBN 3-7020-1095-5 ; then 3rd edition in Ares Verlag , Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-9024-7562-6 . Licensed edition under the title The Stone Front. The Mountain War 1915–1918 in the Carnic Alps, the Julians, on the Isonzo and the Piave, using Julius Kugy's secret war diary. Carinthia Verlag, Klagenfurt 1988, ISBN 3-85378-317- 1 ).
• Titostern over Carinthia 1942–1945. Silent tragedies . ed. v. Regional management of the Carinthian Defense Fighters Association, Klagenfurt 1984.
• Austrians in the fire. Tragedy of valor . Druffel-Verlag , Leoni am Starnberger See 1988, ISBN 3-8061-1057-3 (last there in 1989; then 3rd edition as Tragedy of Bravery. Austrians as soldiers in World War II in Amalthea Verlag , Vienna and Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-8500-2330-6 (3rd, completely revised new edition, under the title Austrians in Fire. Tragedy of Bravery 1939–1945 in Ares Verlag , Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-902732-20-0 ) .
• The Canal Valley and its history. (With Karl Migglautsch). Edited by Kanaltaler Kulturverein, edition k3, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 978-3-901088-04-9 .
• Screams from hell unheard. The hushed up drama of the Sudeten Germans. Hartmann Verlag, Sersheim 1998, ISBN 978-3-925921-31-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingomar Pust in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MKV Gesamzverzeichnis 1981
2. ↑ Screams from Hell unheard. Hartmann Verlag, Sersheim 1998.
3. ↑ http://www.auslandsdienst.at/press/archive/information_6.1985.htm
4. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Pirker : Subversion of German rule. The British War Intelligence Service SOE and Austria. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-990-1 , p. 504.
5. ↑ Brigitte Bailer , Wolfgang Neugebauer (edit.): Handbook of Austrian right-wing extremism. Edited by the Documentation Archive Foundation of the Austrian Resistance , Deuticke, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-216-30099-4 , p. 279.
6. ↑ Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, Wolfgang Benz , Wolfgang Neugebauer (eds.): Truth and "Auschwitz Lie". To combat “revisionist” propaganda. Deuticke, Vienna 1995, ISBN 978-3-216-30124-6 , pp. 21 and 29.