Richard Lackner

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Richard Lackner (born August 24, 1919 in Obermösel near Gottschee , Slovenia ; † June 13, 2011 in Graz ) was a German sculptor and local researcher . As youth leader and deputy of the "team leader" of the "Gottscheer team", Wilhelm Lampeter , he was one of the main organizers of the resettlement of his compatriots, the Gottscheers , from their old homeland " home to the Reich " in 1941 by the National Socialists .

Life

Elementary school Mösel: Richard Lackner went to this school.
Bad Warmbrunn wood carving school in Lower Silesia

Lackner first attended elementary school in Mösel and, after his parents moved in 1927, to Gottschee . There he also graduated from high school in 1937 . From 1938 he studied at the Munich Art Academy , also attended the seminar for art observation in Starnberg and the wood carving school Bad Warmbrunn ( Lower Silesia ).

Because of the illness of his parents, he was forced to interrupt his studies in 1940. He taught young people his art in courses and at home.

After returning to his homeland, Richard Lackner became the youth leader of the National Socialist "Gottscheer Team". After the Balkan campaign in 1941, he served as deputy to the "team leader" Wilhelm Lampeter in the organization of the National Socialists arranged resettlement of the Gottscheer involved in the so-called Rann-triangle from which the indigenous Slovene population had been deported. The trains with the Gottscheer emigrants ran from November 14, 1941 to January 26, 1942. The circumstances of the resettlement in the middle of winter and the living conditions in the previously forcibly cleared new dwellings turned out to be catastrophic, so that there were protests by resettlers. On December 29, 1941 Richard Lackner traveled to Berlin on Wilhelm Lampeter's orders to complain to the Reichsführer SS , Heinrich Himmler . However, this refused a meeting. Lackner's and Lampeter's complaints prompted the SS leadership to remove the leadership of the "Gottscheer team" at a meeting in Marburg , which was attended by Gauleiter Sigfried Uiberreither and SS Oberführer Kurt Hintze , and to demote SS Sturmbannführer Lampeter .

After the fall of the Gottscheer "team leadership", Lackner became youth leader of the Styrian Homeland League in the Rann district , but only for the areas outside the Gottscheer settlement area. From late autumn 1942 he served full-time for the Heimatbund in Marburg and from early summer 1943 in the Gottscheer settlement area in the Rann district. In October 1943 Lackner was drafted into military service. According to his own statement, he was a "rankless soldier of the Waffen-SS " and served in the SS Totenkopf division . On June 19, 1944, shortly after being transferred to the front near Grodno , he was wounded in the right hip, which is why he was operated on in Königsberg (Prussia) . After eight months in a hospital in Graz, he was transferred to a disabled company in Ellwangen (Jagst) in Württemberg, which was then sent to Bavaria. On May 3, 1945, after being wounded through the throat near Lenggries in Upper Bavaria, he was taken prisoner by the Americans and survived his wound after an operation by an American military doctor. He was released from captivity on June 28, 1946.

Lackner worked as an unskilled worker in Ulm , attended Prof. Wilhelm Geyer's "Ulm School" in 1947/1948 and built a weaving workshop. In 1956 Lackner headed the design department of a linen weaving mill in Bielefeld .

In September 1948 Lackner celebrated his wedding with Hannelore Piltz. The marriage resulted in a daughter (Ulrike, born 1948), of whom he in turn had four grandchildren. From 1969 he and his wife owned a textile design studio at Obertalfingen Castle near Ulm.

Lackner was also active as a writer and local historian: even in Gottschee he worked for the “Gottscheer Zeitung” and from 1960 wrote dialect poems in the Gottschee dialect. In his new home he gave lectures on the Gottscheer people and was honorary chairman of the Gottscheer Landsmannschaft in Germany.

In 1992 his wife Hannelore died. As early as 1993 he got married to the Austrian cultural scientist Maria Kundegraber and moved to Graz . Here he died in 2011 at the age of 91.

reception

Due to his role in the evacuation of the Gottscheers, Lackner is still controversial among some of the former Gottscheers.

Publications

Richard Lackner was a committed Gottscheer local historian and was involved in numerous publications of the Gottscheer Landsmannschaft in Germany and the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Gottscheer Landsmannschaften" in Klagenfurt as an editor and author.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Petschauer: Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer, 1980 ( Memento of November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.7 MB). Pp. 107, 119-121.
  2. ^ Richard Lackner: Claims and Lies by John Tschinkel and Alenka Auersperger , Graz 2005
  3. ↑ See for example John Tschinkel: Comprehensive assessment of Richard Lackner
personal data
SURNAME Lackner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Obermösel near Gottschee , Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2011
Place of death Graz