Ivan Rudolf, Podnanos

Ivan Rudolf. Faces of Slovene Regions

Ivan Rudolf was born on 7 November 1898, in Vrabče. In his childhood years, the family moved to Šentvid (now Podnanos), where his father, a teacher, obtained a position at a school. The family opened a tavern. Ivan attended primary school in the locality, and secondary school in Idrija. During the First World War, he was imprisoned for anti-Austrian speech, then sent to the Russian front, and in 1918 he was among the Matisovci fighters. His studies began at the high commercial school in Vienna, continued at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences in Frankfurt, and he graduated in 1924. His first job was at the Gorica branch of the Ljubljana Credit Bank. His national activity was demonstrated through the founding of the main board of TIGR in Gorica and becoming the leader of his cell in his home region. He emigrated to Ljubljana, continued with anti-fascist activities, and worked with various intelligence services. After the Italian occupation of Ljubljana, he fled to Belgrade, from there to Jerusalem, and then to Cairo. He worked in the Intelligence Service, where he had a great reputation. He had merits as a fighter and organizer of Slovene transmitters in Africa in the fight against fascism. Under British patronage, he published the newspaper Bazovica until 1944. At the request of the British, he organized a special intelligence service for the recruitment of divers and informants sent by British officers into the German rear, later also in military missions for the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. After the war, he lived in Trieste, taught at secondary schools, and collaborated with Radio Trieste as a radio journalist. The TIGR Society and KS Podnanos placed a commemorative statue in memory of his activities and merits on the square in Podnanos in 1998.

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