József Klekl (politician)

Klekl born in Prekmurje, in Krajna, in the Vas County of the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1904 Klekl founded the Hungarian Slovene Catholic newspaper Marijin liszt.

Klekl, József Szakovics, Iván Bassa, István Kühár, and József Csárics worked out the Slovene March programme, but in Hungary the Bolshevik administration came to power and Serbian forces quickly annexed Prekmurje.

For a long time the people of Prekmurje were angry with Klekl because he did not create an independent Slovene territory.

Klekl and Szakovics actively wrote and championed the standard Prekmurje Slovene in the 20th century, which was banned after 1945.