Carl von Braitenberg

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Carl (Karl) von Braitenberg (born February 6, 1892 in Meran , Austria-Hungary ; died January 19, 1984 in Bozen , Italy ) was an Italian politician from South Tyrol .

Life

Carl von Braitenberg (1948)

Braitenberg was born the son of a doctor and studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck from 1911 to 1914 , where he received his doctorate in 1918 sub auspiciis Imperatoris . During the First World War he was an Austrian first lieutenant in Galicia and Trentino . After the Italian annexation of South Tyrol and during Italian fascism , Braitenberg initially worked for the South Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce before the Italian state ousted him from his position as part of the Italianization . In 1928 he became legal advisor at the Südtiroler Sparkasse , of which he was finally president from 1945 to 1953. In the option question in 1939 he chose to remain in South Tyrol. In 1945 he was briefly deputy mayor of Bolzano and served in the Italian Senate from 1948 to 1958 as a representative of the Trentino-South Tyrol region and a member of the South Tyrolean People's Party . From 1958 to 1959 he was a member of the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg. In South Tyrol he was President of the Bolzano Regional Tourist Office from 1959 to 1969.

He published various articles on regional studies and regional history of Tyrol in the magazine Der Schlern and ensured the structural security of the Zenoburg in Merano.

In 1961 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Officer (Grande Ufficiale)).

Carl von Braitenberg was married to Ida von Walther; they had four children, including the medic Valentin Braitenberg .

Fonts

Zenoburg, the Acropolis of Merano (1934)
  • 300 years of the shooting range in the Oberbozner "Sommerfrisch" . Amonn, Bozen 1968.
  • Under a black and brown dictatorship. Memories of a family man . Arunda , Schlanders 1976.
  • Tyrolean shooting targets. The Oberbozen shooting range . Athesia, Bozen 1979.

literature

  • Under a black and brown dictatorship . In: Brigitte Foppa : Writing about staying or going. The option in South Tyrolean literature 1945–2000 . With a foreword by Leopold Steurer and an afterthought by Birgit Alber. Trento: Dipartimento di scienze filologiche e storiche 2003, pp. 293–295

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quirinals
personal data
SURNAME Braitenberg, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braitenberg, Karl von; Braitenberg zu Zenoberg, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (South Tyrol), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1984
Place of death Bolzano