Avtor analizira dravske poplave med Ormožem in Središčem ob Dravi konec 18. in v 19. stoletju. Drava je na tem območju vseskozi poplavljala in poplave so v prvi vrsti prizadele prebivalce ob reki. ...Ker je bilo to tudi mejno območje med Avstrijo (Štajerska) in Ogrsko (Hrvaška), so spremembe rečne struge povzročale še obmejne spore. Konec 19. stoletja so na Dravi pričeli z izvajanjem sistematičnih regulacijskih del, s čimer so skušali omejiti poplave na obravnavanem (in širšem) območju.
In the following contribution, the author analyses the Provincial Assembly appearances of the Lower Styrian deputy Ivan Dečko during his last term (1902–1907). Although the Slovenian side failed to ...win in the city (at the level of the Provincial and National Assembly; the closest they came to victory was in 1901), the Celje Germans followed the Slovenian national progress with increasing concern. However, the urban elite refused to yield to the Slovenian demands for a grammar school within the city territory. Meanwhile, Dečko apparently “forgot” the decision of the Slovenian politicians not to agree to any compromises in this regard, and he arbitrarily offered a part of his property behind the “city walls” in Gaberje as the location where the Slovenian grammar school could be built. His move turned out to be a perfect tool for the conservatives to attack him and indirectly also the liberals in Celje. Ultimately, this led to the definite end of the Lower Styrian policy of “Concord”.
Avtor v príspevku analizira deželnozborske nastope spodnještajerskega poslanca in ljutomerskega/mariborskega odvetnika Frana Rosine v njegovem edinem mandatu (1896-1902). Ustanovitev slovenskih ...celjskih vzporednic leta 1895 je sprožila ostre reakcije med celotnim nemštvom v monarhiji in posledično prisilila Windischgraetzovo vlado k odstopu. Po Badenijevih jezikovnih naredbah leta 1897, ki so povzročile silovite nemške odzive, je spodnještajersko nemštvo dokončno in brez izjeme »bučno« odgovarjalo na vsako slovensko »akcijo«. Nemško-slovenska nasprotja so bila na prelomu stoletja prisotna na vsakem koraku, nemška stran pa je imela v nacionalnem boju mnogo boljše »izhodišče«, kar je s pridom izkoriščala. V tem ostrem mednacionalnem »spopadu« je bil del (slovenske) deželnozborske politike v Gradcu tudi Rosina. Leta 1895 se je naselil v Ljutomeru, leto kasneje je postal deželnozborski poslanec, leta 1900 pa se je skupaj z ostalimi slovenskimi poslanci odločil za abstinenco, ki je trajala do konca mandata. Vmes se je preselil v Maribor, na novih volitvah leta 1902 pa ni več kandidiral za poslanca.
In the following contribution, the author analyses the upheaval in Lower Styria (especially in the “endangered” areas) through the prism of the examples of the reckoning with the Lower Styrian ...Germans. The establishment of the new state terrifed the Germans. Many German civil servants were dismissed practically every day, while, on the other hand, the Slovenian side euphorically looked towards the future. The events that followed spread hatred (and fear) of the Germans, who felt increasingly threatened. The most fervent “defence” of the Lower Styrian Germans came fom the Grazer Tagblat newspaper fom Graz, which kept constantly arguing (for two decades) that Lower Styria should be annexed back to the German nation (which eventually really happened).
In the following contribution, the author analyses the German members of the Lower Styrian Provincial Assembly (urban and rural curiae) in the period from 1848/61 to 1918. After the restoration of ...the constitutional life in 1861, a Slovenian party (a party in the pre-modern sense), which strived for language and national equality, and a German “constitutional” party were formed. The national question was becoming increasingly topical in the Austrian political arena. While the national component was still not so prominent at the first election, it already gained a more evident role until the next by-election. In the following years (decades), nationalism intensified and influenced a progressively national attitude of the German (as well as the Slovenian) representatives.
Avtor v članku analizira slovenske poslance v štajerskem deželnem zboru med letoma 1896-1918. V teh letih je bila (tudi) na Spodnjem Štajerskem nacionalna komponenta stalnica v političnem življenju, ...v letih 1906-07 pa je prišlo do dokončnega razpada sloge in oblikovanja dveh ločenih političnih taborov. Tabora sta kljub vsemu ostala enotna vsaj glede »narodnih« zadev, medtem ko sta na volitvah nastopala ločeno.
In the present contribution, the author analyses the Provincial Assembly appearances of the Lower Styrian deputy Ivan Dečko during his first term of office (1890–96). In 1885, Dečko moved from ...Maribor to Celje, found employment in Josip Sernec’s law firm, and visibly encouraged the Slovenian “breakthrough” in the city by the river Savinja. He also applied his thoughtful tactics at the level of the Provincial Assembly when he became a member of the Styrian Provincial Assembly in the Ljutomer rural curia in 1890. With his speeches, petitions, and interpellations in the Provincial Assembly, he and other Slovenian deputies stirred up unrest in the German (liberal) ranks and forced them into national homogenisation. Also under Dečko’s influence, the clever Slovenian politics at the beginning of the 1890s won over the rural areas completely while restricting the Lower Styrian Germans to the cities and certain towns.