Július Stano

Július Stano (1941)

Július Stano (born February 22, 1900 in Ružomberok ( Austria-Hungary ); † November 5, 1971 ibid) was a Slovak and Czechoslovak politician , an official of the Slovak People's Party and from 1939 to 1944 Minister of Transport and Minister of Public Works of the Slovak State .

Life

Stano studied engineering in the UK . From 1923 he worked at the Secretariat of the Slovak People's Party of Andrej Hlinka . From 1930 to 1938 he was the party's deputy general secretary and from 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the Slovak state parliament . After Slovakia declared itself independent under pressure from Adolf Hitler on March 14, 1939, Stano became Minister of Transport and Minister of Public Works.

Domestically, he orientated himself as a minister to the Catholic-conservative party wing of the President Jozef Tiso . In 1940, the leader of the fascist - pro-Nazi party wing, Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka , tried to force Stano to resign together with other conservative ministers and to replace him with radical Slovak National Socialists . However, at the intervention of the President, Stano kept his ministerial post until 1944. During this time he was sharply criticized by the German security service as a 100% friend of the Jews .

He was arrested in 1945 and sentenced to four years imprisonment by a Czechoslovak People's Court in 1947. After his release in 1949, he worked as an administrative clerk in Ružomberok .

literature

• Karol Sidor: Denníky 1930–1939 , Ústav pamäti národa, 2010, ISBN 978-80-89335-23-7 .
• Milan S. Ďurica: Jozef Tiso (1987-1947). Životopisný profile. , Lúč Bratislava, 2006, ISBN 80-7114-386-3 .
• Peter Sokolovič: HLINKOVA GARDA 1938–1945 , Ústav pamäti národa, Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-89335-10-7 .
• Jörg K. Hoensch: Studia Slovaca: Studies on the history of the Slovaks and Slovakia , Oldenbourg, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56521-4 .