Andrej Hlinka (September 27, 1864 - August 16, 1938) was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest, one of the most important Slovak public activists in the pre-WWII Czechoslovakia, leader of the Slovak People's Party (until his death), papal chamberlain (since 1924), infulled papal protonotary (since 1927), member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (the parliament) and chairman of the St. Vojtech Group (organization publishing religious books). September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Slovak Peoples Party (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová strana, SĽS, after 1925 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party / Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana/ HSĽS, after 1938 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party - Party of Slovak National Unity/Hlinkova. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Austria-Hungary

He graduated from theology in Spišská Kapitula and was consecrated a priest in 1889. In his political views he was a strong defendant of Catholic ethics against all secularizing tendencies connected with economic and political liberalism of the Kingdom of Hungary in the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. This was also the opinion of the Hungarian Katolikus Néppárt (Catholic People's Party), led by Count Zichy, so Hlinka became activist of this party. Later, when he saw that the party was paying no attention to nationality requests, he founded the Slovak People's Party along with František Skyčák in 1913. His support of Slovak requests collided with the negative opinions of the church hierarchy as well as with the Hungarian regime, which attempted to magyarize non-Magyar ethnic groups (force them to consider themselves Magyars), so Hlinka was persecuted by both the government (by imprisonment) and by the church (by suspending him from his office). Hlinka accepted the opinion that the Slovaks should split from the Kingdom of Hungary and became member of the Slovak National Council. He also signed the Martin declaration in 1918, in which the will of Slovak politicians to politically join with the Czech nation was expressed. Theology (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason) means reasoned discourse concerning religion, spirituality and God. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... This article discusses liberalism as a major worldwide political ideology, its development, and some of its many modern-day variations. ... The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság) is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed in Central Europe from 1000 to 1918. ... The Slovak Peoples Party (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová strana, SĽS, after 1925 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party / Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana/ HSĽS, after 1938 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party - Party of Slovak National Unity/Hlinkova. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság) is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed in Central Europe from 1000 to 1918. ... The National Council of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Národná rada Slovenskej republiky, often just: Národná rada) (NR SR) has been the name of the parliament of Slovakia since 1993 (more precisely since 1 October 1992). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Czechoslovakia

In the first Czechoslovak republic, Hlinka was the chairman of the Slovak People's Party, since 1925 called Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. Its main political program was to achieve autonomy of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia on the basis of the Pittsburg Treaty (1918) between American Czechs and Slovaks and TomᚠGarrigue Masaryk. Masaryk, who became President of Czechoslovakia, claimed during his presidency that the treaty was a falsificate. Slovakia was granted autonomy on October 6, 1938, that is only when frontier regions of Bohemia and Moravia were occupied by Germany. That was less than two months after Hlinka's death and 20 years after the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The Slovak Peoples Party (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová strana, SĽS, after 1925 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party / Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana/ HSĽS, after 1938 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party - Party of Slovak National Unity/Hlinkova. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... An autonomous (subnational) entity is a subnational entity that has a certain amount of autonomy. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, portrait by Josef Jindřich Šechtl, 1918 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (IPA: ), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (March 7, 1850 - September 14, 1937) was an advocate of Czechoslovak independence during WW I and became the first President of Czechoslovakia. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flag of Bohemia Bohemia (Czech: ; German: ) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. ... Moravia in relation to the current kraje of the Czech Republic Moravia (Czech and Slovak: Morava, German: ( ), Hungarian: Morvaország, Polish: Morawy) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. ...

Opinions on Hlinka after his death

During the first Slovak Republic (1939-1945), Hlinka was considered by the regime as a national hero. His advocacy of a "Slovakia for the Slovaks" by nature excluded the many minorities that made up the area of Slovakia at the time, namely Jews, Gypsies, Hungarians, Ruthinians, Poles and Czechs. This, and his association of his Slovak People’s Party with the partly pro-Nazi, partly conservative authoritarian regime, are the reasons for his association with fascism. In Communist Czechoslovakia he was portrayed as a "clerofascist", due to his wish for a homogenous "Slovakia for the Slovaks". After the fall of the regime, Hlinka became again a respected person, mostly to members and sympatisants of nationalist organisations/parties and christian democrats, while the rest of the Slovak society seems mostly indifferent to Hlinka. Hlinka's image can be found on the Slovak 1000 crowns bill. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology [1] that holds that a nation is the fundamental unit for human social life, and takes precedence over any other social and political principles. ...

See also

• Slovak People's Party