Ivan Šusteršič

Ivan Šusteršič

Ivan Šusteršič (also Šušteršič , * 29. May 1863 in Gorenja vas ; † 7. October 1925 in Ljubljana ) was a Slovenian lawyer and Catholic - national politicians .

Life

His father Valentin Šusteršič (Schusterschitz) was a civil and criminal judge in Krainburg . His younger brother Alois Schusterschitz , from 1919 Alojz Šusteršič, was an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, most recently with the rank of rear admiral (in 1900 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China). Ivan Šusteršič attended the grammar school in Krainburg from 1873 to 1875, then the 1st state grammar school in Ljubljana until 1881. He then studied law in Vienna until 1885 . In 1886 he got a job as a trainee in a law firm, in 1894 he opened his own law firm in Ljubljana . In 1891 he married Bogomila Šuman, the daughter of a high school official from Ljubljana. With her he had four children: Ivo, Bogomila, Alfons and Ferdinand.

Political career

In 1896 Šusteršič was elected to the Zisleithan Imperial Council. He was a member of the Carniolan Catholic National Party, which was renamed the Slovenian People's Party in 1905. Since 1897 he led the members of this party in the Reichsrat. From 1912 to October 1918 he was governor of the Crown Land of Carniola . In 1914 he gave the leadership of the South Slav fraction to Anton Korošec . As a politician, he stood up for the interests of the peasants. He was a South Slav nationalist who advocated the merger of the Slovene and Croatian populated regions of Zisleithania into a unified, Illyrian , administrative area. He was loyal to the Habsburg imperial family and rejected the establishment of all South Slavs comprehensive Yugoslav State since. In 1918 he went into exile in Switzerland and in 1922 returned to his homeland.

literature

• A. Rahten:  Šusteršič Ivan. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 62.
• Andrej Rahten: Ivan Šusteršič, the uncrowned Duke of Carniola. The Slovenian Catholic movement between the trialist reform concept and the Yugoslav state idea . Vienna: Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2012