The South Tyrolean Hermione Aloisia Mayr fought the Austrian passport to its last breath. Now she died in the 107th year of life. The high politics showed deaf ears for the last “catacomb teacher”, because women called women who taught children in the south of the Brenner -German.
When Hermione Aloisia Mayr (widow Orian) was born on April 23, 1919 in the romantic city of Kurtatsch on Weinstraße in a Farmer’s family, South Tirol was occupied by Italian troops, but still part of the Republic of German Austria. The country south of the burner only came to Italy on October 20, 1920. With the seizure of the power of the fascists, a violent assimilation policy started in 1922.
Taught in a secret native language
Teachers such as Hermione Mayr met with the children after class to teach them their native language, German, in the secret of farmers or in inns. High penalties threatened. Hermione was lucky. The Carabinieri in the village, all South -Ethicalians, were not good on foot in the mountainous and snowy terrain.
A total of 30,000 girls and boys were taught in German in the so -driven catacombs. Thanks to courageous people such as Hermione, the German stripe -people could keep their cultural identity at the moment.
Skilled skillfully by authorities in the circle
“I was born as an Austrian, as an Austrian I want to die,” said the South Tyrolean mother, grandma and Uroma, who fought for many citizenship for years. But the authorities only sent it in a circle. The high policy of Austria also had deaf ears.
“Even if the new legal arguments against the wishes of Mrs. Mayr have been repeatedly raised, it should not be noted that in the first place ideological-political reasons were responsible for the fact that a true Austrian who, the government of her own homeland, refused to the last Catasth-Catras Posthenship.
The reasons for rejection of the award, such as serious crimes, financial crimes, terrorist activities or attempts to damage Austrian democracy were not available for Mrs. Mayr.
Source: Krone
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