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Franc Glinik 1895 - 1945 Edit

Born 1.10.1895 in Prevalje
Died 8.5.1945 in Mauthausen

Biography

Franc Glinik was born to Jakob Glinik and Marija Bauh in Prevalje. The language used within the family and commonly by Glinik, who had right of residence to live in Loibach/Libuče (present-day Bleiburg) in Carinthia, was Slovenian. In 1925 he married Helena Filip in his home parish of Bleiburg. The couple raised a foster daughter. As tenants the small family worked what was known as the Mertl holding in St. Margarethen near Bleiburg.

The Gliniks supported the partisan movement from early on. Franc Glinik was arrested together with the farm labourer Alojz Mehsner in a Gestapo retaliation action for the killing of the local Blockleiter Johann Kressnig on 4 May 1943, despite the existence of proof that neither of them had anything to do with his murder. The two men, along with four others also arrested in this regard, were sent by the Klagenfurt Gestapo to Mauthausen concentration camp. On 11 June 1943 he was registered by the camp administration under prisoner number 30797. According to his prisoner index card, he was 165cm tall, had blue eyes and dark hair. Languages were listed as German and Slovenian. In the concentration camp he was assigned to the so-called Yugoslavian Block and, on 1 November 1943, transferred to the Schwechat subcamp. He wrote his final message to his wife on 5 March 1945. We know that Franc Glinik saw the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp but he was already very ill with typhus. His exact date of death could no longer be ascertained by the authorities. Retrospectively his date of death was determined as 8 May 1945. Franc Glinik was 49 years old.

Brigitte Entner

Slowenisches Wissenschaftliches Institut – Slovenski znanstveni institut Klagenfurt/Celovec

 

Translation into English: Joanna White

 

From: Brigitte Entner: Wer war Klara aus Šentlipš/St. Philippen? Kärntner Slowenen und Sloweninnen als Opfer der NS-Verfolgung. Ein Gedenkbuch [Who was Klara from Šentlipš/St. Philippen? Carinthian Slovenes as Vicitms of Nazi Persecution. A Memorial Book] (Klagenfurt – Vienna/Celovec – Dunaj 2014), p. 309 and 312f.

 

Sources:

Archiv des Slowenischen wissenschaftlichen Instituts (ASZI) in Klagenfurt, Fond C: OF, Fasc. VII, Mapa 3, Obč. 15 Libuče; Mapa 6, IX Vrašalne polje, 9.4.47; Fasc. V Velikovec, Mapa 3 OKOOF FOOF odbor, OF seznam Pliberk, 14.10.1946 (115).

International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen.

Kärntner Amtsblatt 12, 10.6.1948, p. 92.

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