Mur republic

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The Republic of Prekmurje or Republic Prekmurje ( Slovene Murska republika , Hungarian Mura Köztársaság or Vendvidéki Köztársaság , Prekmurje Slovene Respublika Slovenska okroglina, Respublika Mörska ) was 1919 in Hungary (in the area of today's Prekmurje , Slovenia proclaimed), but disbanded after only six days.

prehistory

Prekmurje (5) is one of the five historical regions of Slovenia. The incision on the top right between (4) and (5) corresponds to the Murtal near Austrian Bad Radkersburg

Hungarian refugees and exiles founded the “Anti-Bolshevik Committee” under Count Istvan Bethlen in Vienna in April 1919 . Their aim was to weaken the Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun , and to this end they even supported Slovene secession efforts on Hungarian territory. The majority of the Slovenian population of the Danube Monarchy had lived in the Austrian half of the empire and had already joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . However, the Prekmurje region east of the Mur was part of the Hungarian half of the empire and was therefore subject to the Hungarian Soviet Republic in the spring of 1919.

Proclamation of independence

On May 29, 1919, the Independent Mur Republic was proclaimed on the balcony of the Hotel Dobray (today's name: Hotel Zvezda) in Murska Sobota . The initiator was the Slovenian teacher Vilmos Tkálecz , who had served as an officer in the First World War. He appealed to the Hungarian Soviet Republic to respect the Slovenian people's right to self-determination.

Crackdown

Tkalecz had around 600 armed men under his command; however, the promised support from Hungarians in Austria did not materialize. Therefore, the dreams of the independence of the Mur republic ended after a few days. Tkálecz's troops were driven to Austrian territory, where they were disarmed and interned in Feldbach .

Later story

Nostalgia or provocation? Graffiti on a house wall in Murska Sobota, seen: August 2010.

The Slovenian population of the Prekmurje region continued to demonstrate for a union with the Slovenes on the other side of the Mur. In the Treaty of Trianon , Hungary lost the Prekmurje region; it did not become independent, but attached to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and is now part of the Republic of Slovenia.

literature

  • Julij Titl: Murska republika 1919; Publishing house Pomurska zalozba, Murska Sobota 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ András Mihályhegyi: The Hungarian Soviet Republic in the tension between world revolution and national self-interest. , sn, 1974 ( partially digitized )
  2. ↑ Julij Titl: Murska republika 1919. , Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota 1970 ( partially digitized )
  3. ↑ Harald Heppner , Eduard Staudinger: Region und Umbruch 1918: on the history of alternative attempts at order. , Lang, 2001 ( partially digitized )

Web links

Commons : Mur Republik  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files