Egmont Jenny

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Egmont Jenny (born October 7, 1924 in Rankweil , Austria ; † December 19, 2010 in Dorf Tirol , Italy ) was an Italian regional politician, founder of the Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol (SFP), freelance doctor and publicist.

Life

Youth years between fascism and national socialism

Jenny spent his childhood years in the South Tyrolean village of Lana . In the 1920s and 30s he experienced his first political socialization there , which had been strongly influenced by the violent denationalization measures of the Italian fascists and massive National Socialist counter-agitation by German-speaking South Tyroleans.

In the course of the implementation of the German-Italian resettlement agreement for South Tyrol in 1939 (so-called option ), Jenny's family was torn apart. As the only son, he initially followed his father, who, as a native of Vorarlberg and a trained pharmacist, had decided to accept German citizenship. A few months after he emigrated to the Reich, however, Jenny returned to his Italian-speaking mother in Lana and there ended his school career at the grammar school in Meran .

After successfully completing her high school diploma, Jenny began studying medicine in Bologna in 1942 , but after the occupation of northern Italy by the German Reich in 1943 she volunteered for the Wehrmacht . He survived the German defeat in Italy unscathed in the care of a respected Friulian bourgeois family. After the end of the war he continued his university education in Innsbruck and completed a specialist training as a urologist in Vienna after graduating .

Commitment to the Austrian social democracy in South Tyrol

In the mid-1950s, Jenny opened his private practice in Bolzano and at the same time began a political career with the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), which he represented in the South Tyrolean parliament from 1964 to 1966 and thus also in the Trentino-South Tyrol Regional Council . In 1965 Jenny and like-minded people founded the South Tyrolean Working Group for Social Progress , which was supposed to consolidate the first approaches of a social democratic wing within the People's Party . Jenny's initiative was based not insignificantly on the support of the then Austrian Foreign Minister and later Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky .

In April 1966 Jenny was expelled from the South Tyrolean People's Party for largely ideological reasons. From the ranks of the Working Group for Social Progress then went promptly Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol (SFP) appears resigned as the representative Jenny in 1968 from the South Tyrolean state parliament. By increasing the number of seats in the state parliament from 25 to 34, the party succeeded in regaining a mandate for Jenny despite the loss of votes in the state elections in 1973; In 1978 he was no longer able to defend his seat for the SFP and ran for the last time in 1983 as the top candidate of the Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol (SPS), but this time too he was unsuccessful.

In the 1980s, Jenny withdrew from party politics. In 1985 he reactivated the magazine Südtiroler Nachrichten , originally founded by Hans Dietl , which he published until 2007. In the same year Jenny published her first autobiography in German; In 2010 an Italian version was published posthumously based on a conversation Jennys had with the journalist Lucio Giudiceandrea .

Works

literature

  • Joachim Gatterer: From the ruins of the war to democracy. On the political career of Alfons Benedikter, Pietro Mitolo and Egmont Jenny , in: Pallaver, Günther (Ed.): Politika 11th Yearbook for Politics / Annuario di politica / Anuer de pulitica, Edition Raetia, Bozen 2011, pp. 325–338. ISBN 978-88-7283-388-9 .

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SURNAME Jenny, Egmont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor, politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rankweil
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2010
Place of death Tyrol (South Tyrol)