Janez Starc

Janez Starc (born November 2, 1885 in Mökriach, municipality of Eberndorf , † May 2, 1953 in Villach ) was an Austrian politician ( Party of the Carinthian Slovenes ), priest and from 1927 to 1933 a member of the Carinthian state parliament .

Janez Starc

biography

Starc studied theology in Klagenfurt and graduated in 1911. He then worked as a priest in Ferlach , Windisch Bleiberg , Ruden and from 1922 to 1938 in Keutschach am See . He also worked in various areas. Before the First World War he was involved in the Slovenian Christian workers' association in Unterloibl and supported the renewal of church goods in Windisch Bleiberg and Keutschach. In Keutschach, Starc also worked as a farmer and on the local council, sat on the committee of the Slovenian savings bank and participated in the educational association “Zvezda” (Der Stern). As a culturally active person, he also initiated the construction of the “Dom sv. Jožefa ”, he was also involved in the re-establishment of Slovenian clubs in Southern Carinthia in 1921. For the "Politično in gospodarsko društvo za Slovence na Koroškem" (Political and Economic Association for the Slovenes in Carinthia) Starc also worked from 1925 to 1933 as a secretary and during this time represented the Carinthian Slovenes as a permanent delegate to the European Nationality Congress . There he made contact with the Gottscheer clergyman Josef Eppich and tried to make things easier for the Carinthian Slovenes and Slovenian Germans on the path of reciprocity .

After the National Socialists marched in, he was forced by the Gestapo to leave his parish in Keutschach in March 1938 and denounced and arrested after visiting the community. As a result, he was banished from Carinthia and spent the Second World War in Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland, where he was imprisoned again for a month after Hitler's Germany attacked Yugoslavia in 1941.

After the Second World War, Starc took over the position of deputy chairman of the “Narodni svet koroških Slovencev” (Council of Carinthian Slovenes) in 1949 and suggested the establishment of the weekly newspaper “Naš tednik” (Our weekly paper).

His grave in St. Leonhard bei Siebenbrünn is the only building by Jože Plečnik on Carinthian soil.

literature

• Stefan Karner , Andreas Moritsch (ed.): Resettlement - Deportation - National Struggle (= Carinthia and the national question. Vol. 1). Heyn et al., Klagenfurt et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7084-0014-3 , p. 310.