»Med onimi delavci, ki so sejali med ljudstvo narodno zavest«
Dr. Fran Mayer v Šoštanju
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Fran Mayer, Šoštanj, bourgeoisie, modernizationAbstract
Šoštanj, a small provincial town in Lower Styria, is famous for several exceptional personalities. The lawyer Dr. Fran Mayer (1866-1940) has a special place among them. He moved to Šoštanj in 1898 and settled in a newly built, singlefamily bourgeois villa near the District Court. As a lawyer, intellectual and nationally-conscious Slovenian, he presided with varying success over the Board of the Financial Institute in Šoštanj between 1900 and 1910. After the First World War, he was the municipal manager. In 1920 he initiated the establishment of a public school in Šoštanj. As a long-term mayor of the Municipality of Šoštanj, he played a decisive role in the construction of the public water-supply system in Šoštanj in 1931, which improved and modernized town life and hygienic conditions. With its openness to sports activities and art, the Mayer family’s social life introduced the bourgeois milieu to Šoštanj, the fragment and legacy of which persist, in the memory of the citizens even today.
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