Ulrichsberg gathering

The organisation is considered a meeting ground of far-right extremists and unrepentant Nazis, such as former members of the Waffen-SS.

[2] Ex-minister Herbert Haupt (BZÖ) and Klagenfurt mayor Harald Scheucher (ÖVP) supported the organisation as members.

Right-wing and neo-nazi groups have also been known to frequent this meeting, and it is therefore observed by the Austrian Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism).

One of the speeches was held by a previous Hitlerjugend and Waffen-SS member Herbert Belschan von Mildenburg, although this had been denied by the organisers beforehand.

[9] In 1995, FPÖ governor Jörg Haider notably expressed his thanks to the attending Waffen-SS veterans: That in these difficult times, where there are still honest people with character and who until today remain true to their convictions despite strong contrary winds.

[...] We give money to terrorists, to violent newspapers, to work-shy rabble, and we have no money for respectable people.Jörg Haider had a significant influence on the public image of the society with another speech: [...] it cannot be that bizarre commentaries turn the history of our parents and grandparents into an album of crime, and that their achievements are trampled by history.The meeting as such, as well as the participation of the three largest parties in Kärnten (FPÖ, SPÖ und ÖVP), has recently been strongly criticised.