Janko Tišler

Janko Tišler (born June 21, 1923 in Golnik , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † October 15, 2007 ) was a Slovenian-Austrian author and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

After the German invasion of Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, Tišler was assigned to build the road from Klagenfurt to Kranj . He was then employed as a surveyor on the Loibl Pass , where forced laborers had to work in the Loibl concentration camp , a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp . He began collecting photos and documents and smuggling letters for the concentration camp inmates. When his activity was discovered and the Gestapo was looking for him, he fled and joined the partisans in 1944 . In February 1945 he was seriously wounded and treated in the Franja partisan hospital near Cerkno .

After the end of the war he studied geology and petroleum engineering in Vienna, Belgrade and Paris ; then he worked in Asia and Africa and as a Yugoslav CSCE delegate for petroleum matters.

Award

• Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (June 8, 2007)

Book publications

• Janko Tišler, Christian Tessier: The Loibl concentration camp. The history of the Mauthausen satellite camp on the Loiblpass / Ljubelj. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9502183-6-7 , ( series of publications by the Mauthausen Memorial - Documentation ).
• Janko Tišler, Jože Rovšek: Mauthausen na Ljubelju. Koncentracijsko taborišče na slovensko-avstrijski meji . Drava, Celovec / Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85435-250-6 .
• Janko Tišler, Christian Tessier: De Mauthausen au Ljubelj . Edition revue, corrigée et augmentée de nouveaux documents. l'Harmattan, Paris et al. 2006, ISBN 2-296-00051-7 .

Web links

• Article about Janko Tišler on the homepage of the Mauthausen Memorial (with picture)
• Author Janko Tisler is dead
• Article on the book presentation "Das Lobl-KZ" ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Article on the award of the Golden Medal of Honor