Andrej Gosar

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Andrej Gosar in the 1930s

Andrej Gosar (30 November 1887 – 21 April 1970) was a

political theorist
.

Early life and career

Gosar was born in a working-class family in

Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was a shoemaker, and Andrej worked in his workshop two years, before enrolling to the Classical Gymnasium in Ljubljana in 1902. Between 1910 and 1918, he studied law at the University of Vienna
, where he obtained his PhD.

In 1918, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of

Communists, for the local elections. The platform gained significant support, and won the elections in Ljubljana, establishing a wide range welfare network. In 1925, he was re-elected to the National Assembly. Between 1927 and 1928, he served as Minister of Welfare in the coalition governments of Velimir Vukićević and Anton Korošec. In 1929, he was appointed to the State Legislative Council, an institution established during the royal dictatorship of Alexander I of Yugoslavia
as a substitute for an elected parliament. He resigned in 1931, when the Slovene People's Party withdrew its support to the royal regime.

In 1929, he became professor of sociology and economy at the

International Paneuropean Union.[1]

Theoretical work

During the 1920s and 1930s, he published numerous treatises on economic and social policies. The most important of these were Essays on National Economy (1922), For A Christian Socialism (1923), Social Economy (1924). In his magnum opus, the treatise For A New Social Order, published in two volumes between 1933 and 1935, he defended a

Communist Party of Slovenia
.

With the rise of Catholic integralism and

Christian Democratic re-alignment of the Slovene People's Party. He warned against authoritarian corporatism, fascism, and Marxism, calling for an "autonomist Christian solidarism", based on communitarian values. He was also one of the most consistent advocates of the autonomy of Slovenia within Yugoslavia. In 1940, he published a volume exploring the legal, economic, financial, political and social arguments for the creation of a "Banovina of Slovenia", based on the model of the autonomous Banovina of Croatia.[2]

World War II and later life

Registration form of Andrej Gosar as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp

After the Axis

Nazi German authorities and sent to the Dachau concentration camp
.

After the return in 1945, he was stripped of most of his pre-war academic functions by the new Communist regime; he was however allowed to continue teaching forest legislation at the Technical Faculty. After retirement in 1958, he published a personal memoir, in which he bitterly described his position in the decade 1935-1945 as "the voice shouting in the desert".

In 1967, he was awarded with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by the Holy See.

He died in Ljubljana in 1970.

References

  1. ^ "Org. Vidiki delovanja". Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  2. ^ http://cobiss2.izum.si/scripts/cobiss?ukaz=DISP&id=0211591789288403&rec=1&sid=3[permanent dead link]

Sources

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