!!!Zernatto, Guido

b. Treffen (Carinthia), June 21, 1903, 
d. New York (USA), Feb. 8, 1943, writer and politician of the 
Fatherland Front (Vaterlaendische Front, VF), uncle of Christof  
Zernatto; 1929 secretary of the national section of the reactionary 
"Heimatschutz", 1930/1931 secretary of the reactionary "Heimatblock", 
from May 1936 state secretary in the Federal Chancellery and Secretary 
General of the "Fatherland Front", from Feb. 1938 Federal Minister 
without Portfolio. Conducted negotiations with the National Socialists 
from 1936 to 1938. Fled to France in 1938, to the USA in 1940. 1941 
Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Fordham University. Wrote 
poetry and novels.

!Works
Die Wahrheit ueber Oesterreich, 1939; Vom Wesen der Nation, ed. 
by W. In der Maur, 1966. - Poetry: Gelobt sei alle Kreatur, 1930; Die 
Sonnenuhr, 1933; Der Jahrmarkt, 1946. - Edition: Gedichte, 1950.

!Literature
I. U. Zimmer, G. Z. - Leben und dichterisches Werk, 1970; 
O. Drekonja, Erinnerungen an G. Z., 1981.



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