August Schauer

August Schauer ( born January 17, 1872 in Pöllandl at Teplitz, Austria - Hungary, † July 1, 1941 in Ljubljana, province of Ljubljana ) was a priest and journalist. In other Gottscheers priests he stood in opposition to the expulsion of the German ethnic group of Gottscheers from Yugoslavia by the Nazis.

Life

Schauer attended secondary school in sub Gottschee and then the upper secondary school in Rudolfswerth, where he obtained a university entrance qualification. He then studied theology in Ljubljana and was ordained priest on 22 July 1897.

Rain held his first exhibition in Pöllandl on August 8, 1897. From 1898, he ran as a chaplain and pastoral care in Nesseltal was then added in 1899 after Altlag. 1901 Cloudy pastor in sub Warmberg 1906 and returned back to Nesseltal. Here he was about 30 years pastor. In 1930 he was appointed clergy advice.

Schauer was from 1925 to 1941 editor of Gottscheers calendar, which he had inherited from his predecessors William Tschinkel ( 1921-1923 ) and Robert Brown ( 1924). Here both church issues, particularly the history of Gottscheers were treated and also texts in the local dialect, the Gottschee Rischen published. In August 1930 shower was one of the organizers of the 600th anniversary of the settlement of the Gottschee and held on this occasion a long speech.

After the Balkan campaign in April 1941, the Gottschee was occupied by the Italian Army and part of the Italian province of Ljubljana. The Nazis moved the Gottscheers from their home in the Lower Styria order, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht. The Ljubljana diocesan bishop gave birth to the priests of the Trust oath. Schauer took but together with other Gottscheers clergy ( Joseph Eppich, Ferdinand bay, Josef Erker, Josef Gliebe, Joseph Kraker, Josef Kreiner and Alois Perz ) public stand against the planned relocation. Shortly thereafter ill shower difficult. He died on 1 July 1941 at the Hospital Leonium ( Leonišče ) in Ljubljana and was buried in his birthplace Pöllandl.

His priest colleague Josef Eppich wrote for him an obituary, in the " Gottscheers newspaper " was released on July 3, 1941. It says, among other things: our last, after all, what may come, we will not let us take: fathers faith, homeland and mother tongue. These words in the calendar of the year 1925, he championed until his death, and it grieved him deeply to have to watch that lately in our nation this here and there lacked understanding.