Memorial plaque for Angela Piskernik in Klagenfurt/Celovec

Angela Piskernik was born on August 27, 1886, in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla. The Carinthian Slovene earned her doctorate at the University of Vienna and had a career as a botanist. Due to her commitment to the Slovene ethnic group in Carinthia, she was arrested by the National Socialists in 1943 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After her return in 1945, she became director of the Natural History Museum in Ljubljana and continued to engage in nature conservation and transboundary national parks until her death in 1967. A request from 2015 by the city of Klagenfurt to name a street after Angela Piskernik was rejected. Nevertheless, to set a memorial sign for her in Klagenfurt, the Catholic Action Carinthia initiated in 2021 the installation of a memorial plaque to the left of the entrance gate of the Ursuline School, where Angela Piskernik worked as a student and teacher. In her hometown of Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, a memorial plaque in her memory was placed on the church square in 2015.