Franc Aichholzer

A rectangular stone plaque of a grey colour with an engraved inscription hangs on the house in which director Franc Aichholzer lived and created.

Teacher Franc Aichholzer (1884–1976) first taught in Kotlje, where among others he also taught Lovro Kuhar – Prežihov Voranč. Before the plebiscite (1920), he advocated for the annexation of southern Koroška to the SHS. He was one of the few Slovenian educated people who did not leave Austrian Koroška afterwards, but instead led the revival of Slovenian organisations and became the first editor of Koroški Slovenec (1921). Only after a long legal battle was he accepted as a teacher in the Austrian service, but they sent him to the German part of Koroška. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp Buchenwald. After World War II, he became the director of the people's school in Loča. He took care of the professional development of teachers and in 1952 established the school journal Mladi rod.

The memorial plaque was erected by the Slovenian cultural society Jepa-Baško jezero and the society Mladi rod in 2007.

Franc Aichholzer is buried in the cemetery in Loča.

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