Karol Murgaš
Karol Murgaš (born September 12, 1899 in Budapest , † July 27, 1972 in Skokie ) was a Slovak journalist , lawyer , politician and representative of the radical pro-Nazi wing of the Slovak People's Party . In 1938 he was one of the main founders and committed organizer of the Hlinka Guard, alongside Alexander Mach , Ján Dafčík and Karol Sidor . From 1938 to 1939 he was their chief of staff and from 1940 to 1941 head of the Propaganda Office of the Slovak State .
Life
In 1929 Murgaš came to the editorial office of the Hlinka party newspaper Slovák ( The Slovak ) and worked there as an editor. Even then, he and the brothers Ďurčanský and Šaňo Mach were at the head of the Nástupists ( Vojtech Tuka's political students ), who consistently advocated full sovereignty for Slovakia.
From 1938 to 1939 he was next to Šaňo Mach Chief of Staff of the Hlinka Guard under Karol Sidor. Through his open pacts with the German security service , he aroused increasing distrust among the Catholic-conservative government circles. In 1939 the Slovak Prime Minister Jozef Tiso Murgaš was interned in the Ilava concentration camp because of his pro-Nazi activities , but shortly afterwards he was freed by members of the Gestapo .
From 1940 to 1941 he was head of the propaganda office of the Slovak People's Party, as which he tried to anchor a "Slovak National Socialism" in the media and in public opinion. At the turn of the year 1940/41, Murgaš, together with the German ambassador in Bratislava Manfred von Killinger, was one of the driving forces behind the attempted coup by the radicals against President Tiso. From 1941 he was the envoy of Slovakia in Zagreb . In 1946 he was extradited to Czechoslovakia by the Americans and sentenced by a court to 15 years in prison. After his release, Murgaš moved to the United States with his family in 1966 .
ideology
In March 1939, Murgaš spoke out in favor of an independent Slovak state under the protective hand of "the great protector Adolf Hitler". Furthermore, he spoke out several times against the way in which the Slovak government under Jozef Tiso tried to solve the “Jewish question” on the basis of a numerus clausus and, together with Alexander Mach, called for more radical measures. On February 5, 1939, in Rišňovce , he declared to members of the Hlinka Guard:
“In the future there will be neither a Czech nor a Jewish regime in Slovakia. I draw your attention and warn you, gentlemen Jews, that we will not keep this guard on a leash if you provoke them. We are convinced that our Slovak government will resolve the Jewish question and we guardsmen will vote to implement this law. "
literature
- Jörg Konrad Hoensch : Studia Slovaca: Studies on the history of the Slovaks and Slovakia , Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56521-4 .
- Karol Sidor : Denníky 1930–1939 , Ústav pamäti národa, Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-89335-23-7 .
- Peter Sokolovič: Hlinkova garda 1938–1945 , Ústav pamäti národa, Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-89335-10-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Konrad Hoensch: Studia Slovaca: Studies on the history of the Slovaks and Slovakia , Oldenbourg, 2000, p. 113, ISBN 3-486-56521-4
- ^ Jörg Konrad Hoensch: Studia Slovaca: Studies on the history of the Slovaks and Slovakia , Oldenbourg, 2000, p. 255, ISBN 3-486-56521-4
- ↑ Igor-Philip Matić: Edmund Veesenmayer: Agent and diplomat of the National Socialist expansion policy in Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , 2002 p. 63
- ↑ Marcová kríza roku 1939 a Hlinkova garda, from Ph Dr. Peter Sokolovič on March 14, 2011 (Slovak) ( Memento from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lotte Weiss: My two lives: Memories of a Holocaust survivor in LIT Verlag Münster , 2010 p. 195.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murgaš, Karol |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1972 |
| Place of death | Skokie |