Decio Molignoni

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Decio Molignoni (born December 31, 1915 in Brez , Trentino , † February 21, 2005 in Bolzano ) was an Italian politician in South Tyrol and Resistan’s fighter.

Life

Molignoni was born in 1915 in the village of Brez in the Non Valley . His father, a socialist irredentist and acquaintance of Cesare Battistis , died in the Austrian internment camp Katzenau during the First World War . His mother was an elementary school teacher with clear anti-fascist convictions. In the 30s Molignoni completed a teaching degree in Turin and then worked as a teacher in Bolzano, Trento and Mezzocorona . From 1943 he was an active member of the resistance against the German occupiers in the operational zone of the foothills of the Alps . In May 1945 he suffered a serious motorcycle accident which resulted in his leg being amputated. In the post-war period, Molignoni finally moved to Bolzano, where he was promoted to school director and later school inspector and campaigned in vain for the establishment of bilingual schools. He was also the founder and long-time director of the Bolzano section of the Società Dante Alighieri .

In 1952, Molignoni was elected to the Regional Council Trentino-South Tyrol for the recently founded Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano and thus at the same time to the South Tyrolean Parliament , to which he - with interruptions between 1962 and 1964 and between 1967 and 1973 because of his candidacy in the Italian parliamentary elections - belonged until 1983. In the 1960s he was involved in the negotiations between the Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky and the Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat on the drafting of the South Tyrol package . From 1965 to 1967 ( Cabinet Magnago II ) and from 1979 to 1984 ( Cabinet Magnago V ) he served as regional councilor in the South Tyrolean provincial government , from 1961 to 1962 and from 1974 to 1984 he was a member of the regional government of Trentino-South Tyrol . From 1966 to 1967 and from 1976 to 1978 he was President of the State Parliament; in the years 1952–1954, 1965–1966 and 1974–1976 he was vice-president of the state parliament. From 1985 he was a member of the Bolzano City Council and City Councilor for Finance. In 1988 Molignoni ended his political career, but remained active in numerous associations such as the Club Alpino Italiano and the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia .

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SURNAME Molignoni, Decio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretzel
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2005
Place of death Bolzano