Richard Lackner, 90 Years, Reader of the Gottscheer Zeitung
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Abgeschickt von Reader of the Gottscheer Zeitung am 13 September, 2009 um 14:03:58:
11 September, 2009
"Our Celebrant: Richard Lackner - 90 Years"
With this introduction, the August issue of the Gottscheer Zeitung recognizes this well known Gottscheer, born on 14. August 1919. The article starts with a report on the early years of Lackner in his Gottscheer homeland and continues by describing his accomplishments after WWII. Among the mentioned are his efforts as leader of Gottscheer organizations in Germany for which Lackner was awarded the title of "Honored Member and Cultural Adviser". He is also "Honored Member" of the Landsmannschaft in Klagenfurt, (the owner/publisher of the "Zeitung") under the longtime Chairman, Dr. Viktor Michitsch. Michitsch is also Chairman of the AG, the umbrella over other Gottscheer organizations, including the GHGA in the USA. The article ends the laudation with the exultation: "Of him and his works, all Gottscheer can be proud".
Unfortunately, the article neglects to mention that Lackner's most notable "accomplishments" were in the years between 1938 and 1942. In that period Lackner was leader of the entire Gottscheer youth (aged 21 or less) and tasked to embed National-Socialism into the minds of the next generation. This is clearly illustrated in rousing speeches, poems and articles by Lackner, Ludwig Kren (b. 17/12/1920) and others and eternalized in the 1941 issues of the Gottscheer Zeitung, then under control of the 25 year old National-Socialist and Gottscheer leader, Wilhelm Lampeter. Lackner was Lampeter's Staff Leader and Second in Command.
That Lackner was successful is clear from the fact that his youth movement was enormously instrumental in getting their reluctant parents to agree to resettlement. He convinced them to persuade their elders to: "give up the stony and barren farms and homeland for the fertile, secure and eternal Third Reich into which we are being called by the Fuehrer". (see the GZ's of 1941).
We all know the final result of this Siren song. Its outcome, however, does not diminish Lackner's part in the successful execution of the order of the Führer. Not a small "accomplishment" for a charismatic young man barely past his teenage years.
It is not surprising therefore, that some decades later, Lackner was appointed "Honored Member and Cultural Adviser" by the very same youngsters he indoctrinated into National-Socialism. Among them his charisma continued, if not in their elders who realized (in silence) that they had been betrayed by Lackner, Lampeter and others of the circle. Betrayed with lies and coerced to give up their homeland for lands stolen from the Slovene.
Little of this, however, resonated in the former "young", who continued to see in Lackner's ideology, promises and accomplishments a hoped-for future and, in spite its tragic outcome, rewarded him with titles such as "Honored Member", among others. "He did a great job on our behalf" was, and is still being heard. But the August 2009 article mentions none of these "accomplishments".
Viktor Michitsch, the person ultimately responsible for the Lackner laudatory has, however, hinted elsewhere that Lackner's leadership circle was betrayed. Michitsch, however, does not clarify that the betrayal came from Hitler himself who promised that the Gottscheer would be resettled and remain an ethnic group with the existing leadership intact. All these promises were lies from the start.
But Michitsch (in 1941, at 13 years in Lackner's youth organization) has never mentioned that Lackner and his circle themselves betrayed their people. These betrayed betrayers hid from them the fact that instead of leaving for "Old Germany" they would be moved into lands from which the rightful owners were expelled. (Trains with resettling Gottscheer were already underway without the passengers knowing where they were going).
The laudation further hides the "Celebrant's" past by writing, falsely, that in October 1943 Lackner was inducted into the Wehrmacht. But according to his own public admission, Lackner voluntarily joined the SS-Division "Totenkopf", the most infamous of all SS units. His boss Lampeter also became a member of the SS and at one time was an officer in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Fact is, Lackner betrayed his people just as the Third Reich betrayed him. And since (at least until now) he has not apologized for his part in making the Gottscheer homeless refugees, one can only draw the obvious conclusion that he is still anchored to that failed ideology. And, it appears, so are those who continue to hide his "real accomplishments".
John Tschinkel, 11 September, 2009
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Richard Lackner als " Poet "
Uns ruft Deutschland
Kameraden, uns ruft Deutschland, und wir ziehen frei dahin,
um des stolzen Blutes wegen, um der Treue hohen Sinn.
Da wir nun das Alte lassen, wollen wir das Neue sehn,
doch der Heimat Angedenken, soll mit uns nach Deutschland gehn.
Wenn wir langst auf neuer Erde, fruehtereicher werden baun,
und die neugeschenkte Heimat, in erneuter Liebe schaun.
Wollen wir den Enkeln singen vom vertrauten alten Land,
das uns einst in langem Ringen unbesiegbar fest verband.
Von den Steilen, kargen Aeckern, von dem reichgesaeten Stein
Und den grossen, dunklen Waeldern, die dann rauschten, fern, allein.
Kameraden, und ruft Deutschland, und wir ziehen frei dahin,
um des stolzen Blutes wegen, um der Treue hohen Sinn.
Richard Lackner, GZ, 3. Dezember 1941.
Abgeschickt von Reader of the Gottscheer Zeitung am 13 September, 2009 um 14:03:58:
11 September, 2009
"Our Celebrant: Richard Lackner - 90 Years"
With this introduction, the August issue of the Gottscheer Zeitung recognizes this well known Gottscheer, born on 14. August 1919. The article starts with a report on the early years of Lackner in his Gottscheer homeland and continues by describing his accomplishments after WWII. Among the mentioned are his efforts as leader of Gottscheer organizations in Germany for which Lackner was awarded the title of "Honored Member and Cultural Adviser". He is also "Honored Member" of the Landsmannschaft in Klagenfurt, (the owner/publisher of the "Zeitung") under the longtime Chairman, Dr. Viktor Michitsch. Michitsch is also Chairman of the AG, the umbrella over other Gottscheer organizations, including the GHGA in the USA. The article ends the laudation with the exultation: "Of him and his works, all Gottscheer can be proud".
Unfortunately, the article neglects to mention that Lackner's most notable "accomplishments" were in the years between 1938 and 1942. In that period Lackner was leader of the entire Gottscheer youth (aged 21 or less) and tasked to embed National-Socialism into the minds of the next generation. This is clearly illustrated in rousing speeches, poems and articles by Lackner, Ludwig Kren (b. 17/12/1920) and others and eternalized in the 1941 issues of the Gottscheer Zeitung, then under control of the 25 year old National-Socialist and Gottscheer leader, Wilhelm Lampeter. Lackner was Lampeter's Staff Leader and Second in Command.
That Lackner was successful is clear from the fact that his youth movement was enormously instrumental in getting their reluctant parents to agree to resettlement. He convinced them to persuade their elders to: "give up the stony and barren farms and homeland for the fertile, secure and eternal Third Reich into which we are being called by the Fuehrer". (see the GZ's of 1941).
We all know the final result of this Siren song. Its outcome, however, does not diminish Lackner's part in the successful execution of the order of the Führer. Not a small "accomplishment" for a charismatic young man barely past his teenage years.
It is not surprising therefore, that some decades later, Lackner was appointed "Honored Member and Cultural Adviser" by the very same youngsters he indoctrinated into National-Socialism. Among them his charisma continued, if not in their elders who realized (in silence) that they had been betrayed by Lackner, Lampeter and others of the circle. Betrayed with lies and coerced to give up their homeland for lands stolen from the Slovene.
Little of this, however, resonated in the former "young", who continued to see in Lackner's ideology, promises and accomplishments a hoped-for future and, in spite its tragic outcome, rewarded him with titles such as "Honored Member", among others. "He did a great job on our behalf" was, and is still being heard. But the August 2009 article mentions none of these "accomplishments".
Viktor Michitsch, the person ultimately responsible for the Lackner laudatory has, however, hinted elsewhere that Lackner's leadership circle was betrayed. Michitsch, however, does not clarify that the betrayal came from Hitler himself who promised that the Gottscheer would be resettled and remain an ethnic group with the existing leadership intact. All these promises were lies from the start.
But Michitsch (in 1941, at 13 years in Lackner's youth organization) has never mentioned that Lackner and his circle themselves betrayed their people. These betrayed betrayers hid from them the fact that instead of leaving for "Old Germany" they would be moved into lands from which the rightful owners were expelled. (Trains with resettling Gottscheer were already underway without the passengers knowing where they were going).
The laudation further hides the "Celebrant's" past by writing, falsely, that in October 1943 Lackner was inducted into the Wehrmacht. But according to his own public admission, Lackner voluntarily joined the SS-Division "Totenkopf", the most infamous of all SS units. His boss Lampeter also became a member of the SS and at one time was an officer in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Fact is, Lackner betrayed his people just as the Third Reich betrayed him. And since (at least until now) he has not apologized for his part in making the Gottscheer homeless refugees, one can only draw the obvious conclusion that he is still anchored to that failed ideology. And, it appears, so are those who continue to hide his "real accomplishments".
John Tschinkel, 11 September, 2009
-----------------
Richard Lackner als " Poet "
Uns ruft Deutschland
Kameraden, uns ruft Deutschland, und wir ziehen frei dahin,
um des stolzen Blutes wegen, um der Treue hohen Sinn.
Da wir nun das Alte lassen, wollen wir das Neue sehn,
doch der Heimat Angedenken, soll mit uns nach Deutschland gehn.
Wenn wir langst auf neuer Erde, fruehtereicher werden baun,
und die neugeschenkte Heimat, in erneuter Liebe schaun.
Wollen wir den Enkeln singen vom vertrauten alten Land,
das uns einst in langem Ringen unbesiegbar fest verband.
Von den Steilen, kargen Aeckern, von dem reichgesaeten Stein
Und den grossen, dunklen Waeldern, die dann rauschten, fern, allein.
Kameraden, und ruft Deutschland, und wir ziehen frei dahin,
um des stolzen Blutes wegen, um der Treue hohen Sinn.
Richard Lackner, GZ, 3. Dezember 1941.