Alois Puff

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Alois Puff Zugsführer / Staff Leader Military Music, 4th Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger in Bregenz (1911)

Alois Puff (born October 24, 1890 in Gries near Bozen , Tyrol ; † October 12, 1973 in Bozen, South Tyrol ) was a Tyrolean Kaiserjäger , South Tyrolean politician of the German Association (DV), a founding member of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) and political imprisonment for his open rejection of fascism and national socialism .

Life

Puff was born in Gries near Bozen in 1890. His mother, Anna Plattner from Jenesien , died suddenly when he was eleven years old, and in the same year his father Anton was admitted to the hospital in Innsbruck with meningitis . Alois and his siblings were placed with various foster families in Gries.

In 1911 he made officer training with the 4th Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger in Bregenz . During the First World War he was a platoon leader and staff leader of the military music in Galicia and Vielgereuth at the front. After the collapse of the Danube monarchy and the end of the war in 1918, he and his unit were to go into captivity in Italy on November 4, 1918, but decided without authorization to bring the rest of the remaining unit to Bolzano and thus escaped captivity.

In 1919 he married Theresia Torggler from Obermais and ran a small farm in Quirein near Gries as a tenant .

He was founded in 1919 politically German Association (DV) is active, the merger of all German parties in South Tyrol, and performed in 1939 as a member of the South Tyrolean Andreas Hofer Federal (AHB) political resistance than Dableiber and worked against the South Tyrol Option Agreement . After the change of power he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 12, 1943 and imprisoned together with Friedl Volgger as a political prisoner in Bolzano.

In February 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm in Gossensaß and injured in an air raid.

Before the end of the war he organized the rest of the political forces in South Tyrol and was a founding member of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) in Bolzano. The Allied Military Administration appointed him, in the transitional phase of the provisional administration of Bolzano, as a member of the municipal committee from 1946 to 1948.

On October 30, 1965, he was appointed to the SVP's economic committee as a representative of the South Tyrolean wine cooperatives.

Association activities

Quote

"South Tyrol is to be reunited with the state of Tyrol and incorporated into Austria ."

Trivia

The use of the Alpen-Edelweiß as a party symbol of the German Association (DV) in the Italian parliamentary elections in May 1921 was an idea by Alois Puff and Eduard Reut-Nicolussi . Both were former Kaiserjäger officers and symbolically wore their former edelweiss badges at every meeting. The symbol was later adopted by the South Tyrolean People's Party and the Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Formation and development of the SVP. South Tyrolean People's Party Foundation, 2005, accessed on March 14, 2012 .
  2. ^ The founding of the South Tyrolean People's Party. South Tyrolean People's Party, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Formation and development of the SVP. (PDF; 261 kB) (No longer available online.) South Tyrolean People's Party, archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; Retrieved August 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Personalities of the Burgerkapelle Gries. Burgerkapelle Gries, May 21, 2012, accessed on May 21, 2012 .
  5. ↑ 1918–1922: The party system in South Tyrol after the First World War. (No longer available online.) South Tyrolean People's Party, 2005, archived from the original on May 7, 2006 ; Retrieved March 14, 2012 .

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SURNAME Pouf, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian resistance fighter (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Gries-Quirein , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1973
Place of death Bolzano , South Tyrol