Sylvester Leer

After his school period, Sylvester Leer first makes a Schlosserlehre. In Klagenfurt, he will serve his military service and will then be branch manager of the printing and bookshop Carinthia in Wolfsberg in 1903–1913.

After the First World War, he participated in the struggles for freedom against the oppression of Yugoslavia. In a referendum on the right of self-determination of the Carinthians on 10.10.1920, 59.12 % opt for an undivided carinthia. Sylvester Empty is awarded in 1920 for its use with the Kärntner Kreuz for merit. Now his political career begins: he will first become a member of the provisional state government in Carinthia and the Wehr Committee; from 1921 he will be a member of the Carinthian Landtag. In 1925 he received the Gral band and Rudolfina gave him the honorary membership in 1930. He will be a member of the Landesrat and 1934 for a short time.

In the night of 11/12.3.1938, he is arrested as general administrator of the carinthian care of the Gestapo and later, in 1939 – without judgment – in the KZ Buchenwald override. After the dismissal, he finds work as an accountant.

In 1945 he is then one of the co-founders of the ÖVP and will be joined again to the Landesrat Er at the Klagenfurter Friedhof Annabichl.