Jakob Oraže

Jakob Oraže , also: Jakob Orasche (born on July 17, 1902 in Sele-Fara ; executed on April 29, 1943 in Vienna ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism in Carinthia .

Life

After the death of the father, the uncle Michael exercised the guardianship of the nephews Jakob and Sebastian from 1907. After attending the Slovenian elementary school, where he only had one hour of German lessons in the last school years, he worked in agriculture and as a woodworker in Unterjug until 1927. It was retired in 1939 and 1940. In 1939 he fled to Yugoslavia as a woodworker in Trögern on the border with Yugoslavia with his military ID card because - as he later stated in court - he felt harassed by the border officials.

After secretly returning to Carinthia in spring 1941 with Thomas Olip and Josef Malle , he lived hidden in the forest with other deserters . Jakob and Thomas Olip were first supplied with food by Franc Pristovnik in their father's barn and then in the bunker on Setiče and the Hlipovčnik trench . When relocating the parents of the Olip family, he helped the brothers Johann, Peter and Valentin to put away meat and fat supplies and also knew that they had built a bunker in Zell-Winkel. In the spring of 1942 he met Johann Oraže at Franc Pristovnik's house , with whom he spoke about his escape to Slovenia. With Thomas Olip he took over weapons from Johann Doujak, which were passed on to Johann Županc .

On October 4, 1943, Jakob was mentioned in a report from Political Commissar Stane Mrhar to the headquarters of Osvobodilna fronta in Slovenia; It is said that he was out of the question as a partisan because he was unable to walk. When the bunker was stormed by the police on December 1, 1942, Jakob Oraže was on the hunt and didn't come back until evening. There was a shooting in which he was injured in the foot. He was also sentenced to death on April 9, 1943 with 13 co-defendants and executed on April 29 in the Vienna State Prison. In 1949 his body was exhumed with those of the other resistance fighters from Zell / Sele and buried at the church of Zell-Pfarre.

literature

• Franc Kattnig: All Slovenes - Attempt at a Documentation, Klagenfurt / Celovec 1978
• Wilhelm Baum / Peter Gstettner / Hans Haider / Vinzenz Jobst / Peter Pirker (eds.) : Jakob Orasche, in: The Book of Names, Kitab-Verlag , Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-902585-53-0 , pp. 651f
• Thomas Olip: The diary of Thomas Olip. Like a Caged Bird , ed. v. Wilhelm Baum, Kitab-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3902585561
• Vinzenz Jobst (Ed.): Punished with death - forever dishonorable? Kitab, Klagenfurt 2013. ISBN 978-3-902878-24-3 .