!!!Kernstock, Ottokar

b. Maribor, Slovenia (then Marburg), July 25, 1848, 
d. Festenburg (municipality of St. Lorenz am Wechsel, Styria), Nov. 5, 
1928, priest, researcher, patriotic German national poet. Wrote the 
text for the song "Kaiserlied", which became the national anthem in 
1929/30, war poetry and the Swastika Song for the Fuerstenfeld 
National Society group. Although he dissociated himself from National 
Socialism, the Nazi regime used the Swastika Song after K.'s death for 
its propaganda.

!Literature
M. Liebmann, O. K. und sein Hakenkreuzgedicht, in: Campus f. das Fuerstenfelder Kulturmagazin 22, 1993; the same, O. K., der missbrauchte Dichter, in: Ztschr. 
d. Hist. Vereins f. Stmk., vol. 85, 1994; J. Steinbauer, "Markig und 
feierlich". Eine Geschichte der Bundeshymnen der Republik Oe., 
master's thesis, Graz 1993.



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