Rudolf Maister
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Rudolf Maister | |
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 Rudolf Maister in 1919 | |
| Nickname(s) | Vojanov |
| Born | March 29, 1874 Kamnik, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (now Kamnik, Slovenia) |
| Died | July 26, 1934 (aged 60) Unec, Yugoslavia (now Unec, Slovenia) |
| Allegiance | |
| Years of service | 1890–1923 |
| Rank | Order of Saint Sava |
| Other work | Poet and self-taught painter |
Rudolf Maister (pen name: Vojanov; 29 March 1874 – 26 July 1934) was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist. The soldiers who fought under Maister's command in northern Slovenia became known as "Maister's fighters" (Slovene: Maistrovi borci). Maister was also an accomplished poet and self-taught painter.
Life
Early career and fight for Styria
Maister was born in the
Battle of Lučane
.
Marburg's Bloody Sunday
On 27 January 1919,
Germans awaiting the American peace delegation at the marketplace in Maribor (German: Marburg) were fired on by Slovenian troops under the command of Maister. Nine Germans were killed and more than eighteen were seriously wounded. The responsibility for the shooting has not been conclusively established. German sources accused Maister's troops of shooting without cause, while Slovenian witnesses, such as Maks Pohar, testified that the Germans (some still in the uniforms of the German paramilitary organization called the Green Guard) attacked the Slovene soldiers guarding the city hall.[citation needed] The Austrian Germans allegedly attacked the police inspector, Ivan Senekovič, and then pressed towards the Slovenian soldiers in front of the city hall. A Slovenian version of this event involves a German firing a revolver in the direction of the Slovenian soldiers, who responded spontaneously by firing into the civilian crowd.[citation needed] The event became known as Marburg's Bloody Sunday (German
: Marburger Blutsonntag).
Fight for Carinthia
In April 1919, Maister's forces joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Carinthian Plebiscite, in which majority of the local Slovenian population decided to remain part of Austria, Maister withdrew to private life. He spent most of his later life in an estate near Planina in Inner Carniola
.
Poetry
Maister also wrote poetry, which he published in two collected volumes in 1904 and in 1929. Most of his poetry follows
Post-Romantic aesthetics, and it is influenced by the 19th-century Slovene lyrical and patriotic poetry of Simon Jenko, Simon Gregorčič, and Anton Aškerc
.
References
- ^ Ude, Lojze (1977). Boj za severno slovensko mejo 1918/1919 [The Fight for the Northern Slovene Border 1918/1919] (in Slovenian). Maribor: Založba Obzorja. p. 42.
Further reading
- Bruno Hartman, Rudolf Maister: general in pesnik (Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, 2006)
External links
Media related to Rudolf Maister at Wikimedia Commons
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