Florian Kronbichler

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Florian Kronbichler (born July 17, 1951 in Bruneck ) is a German-speaking Italian journalist , writer and politician from Bozen ( South Tyrol ).

Personal and professional career

Florian Kronbichler grew up with seven brothers and a sister in a farming family in Reischach . After primary school, he attended secondary school and the Vinzentinum Humanist High School in Brixen (Abitur 1971); then Kronbichler studied political science at the University of Padua (graduation 1975). During this time he was chairman of the South Tyrolean student body for several years .

After completing his university studies, Kronbichler worked as a civil servant in the South Tyrolean provincial administration. Initially, he was an advisor for degree recognition in the department of Regional Councilor Anton Zelger . Then Kronbichler changed to the department of Provincial Councilor Alfons Benedikter , in the local department for economic programming.

In 1980 Kronbichler started his career as a journalist. Until 1988 he worked as an editor for the newspaper Alto Adige . In the same year he switched to the Südtiroler Wochenmagazin ff , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1993 to 2000. In the following years, up to his parliamentary candidacy in 2013, Kronbichler worked full-time as a freelance journalist. In the Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung , he published his gloss "The Last" five times a week ; he also wrote reports on a regular basis. He wrote leading articles for the Bolzano edition of Corriere della Sera and various scripts for the series “Perspektiven” of the Rai Bolzano .

Political career

During the 1970s, Kronbichler was active in the Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol . At the suggestion of the South Tyrolean Greens (but without being a party member), he ran for the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the list of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà (SEL) on the occasion of the parliamentary elections in February 2013 . Due to the majority award for the victorious center-left party coalition, to which the Sinistra Ecologia Libertà list also belonged, Kronbichler was able to win a mandate with 3.8% of the votes in the multi-person constituency of Trentino-Alto Adige .

Kronbichler was the first German-speaking member of parliament in Rome who, more than 90 years after the first Italian parliamentary elections in South Tyrol (which took place in 1921), was not elected as an exponent of the ethnic rallying parties of the German Association or the South Tyrolean People's Party . For the South Tyrolean Greens, he was the second member of parliament in their history, after the Bozen lawyer Gianni Lanzinger was elected to the green list in 1987 via a nationwide residual vote mandate.

In his function as a parliamentarian, Kronbichler was a member of the investigative commission that was set up on October 2, 2014 and dealt with the complete investigation of the kidnapping and murder of the top Italian politician Aldo Moro in 1978. Since October 8th, he has held the office of commission secretary in the commission of inquiry. Since the beginning of his activity as a parliamentarian, he was also a member of the parliamentary commission for regional issues and from July 2014 to January 2017 also the commission for the politics of the European Union. Since December 2015 Kronbichler has been a member of the delegation of the Italian Parliament for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . There he was a member of the Committee on Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination.

After the SEL was dissolved, Kronbichler joined the parliamentary group of the newly founded Articolo 1 - Movimento Democratico e Progressista (MDP) in February 2017 . Since February 2017 he has been a member of the Environment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. In the parliamentary elections on March 4, 2018 , he decided not to run again.

Publications

• What was good: an Alexander Langer Abc . Edition Raetia , Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-88-7283-227-1
• with Othmar Seehauser: South Tyrol against the light: photo reports since 1980 . Folio Verlag , Vienna and Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-3-85256-324-4
• Libretto: Amici della Lirica; 30 anni di passione per le grandi voci a Bolzano . Edition Raetia, Bozen 2006, ISBN 978-88-7283-284-4
• with Flavio Faganello: go-andar via. Flavio Faganello . Il margine, Trient 2010, ISBN 978-88-6089-077-1
• with Christjan Ladurner: The art of living from above: With South Tyrolean mountain farmers. 21 portraits . Haymon, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7099-7138-3
• Alexander Langer il mite lottatore: Vita e idee di un profeta verde, un abc. Il Margine, Trento 2016, ISBN 978-88-6089-132-7

literature

• Georg Mair: The opposing candidate . In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 4 , January 24, 2013, p. 24-25 .

Web links

Commons : Florian Kronbichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Florian Kronbichler on the website of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
• Florian Kronbichler's personal website
• Florian Kronbichler on the website of Edition Raetia

Individual evidence

1. ^ South Tyrolean opposition . Kronbichler's interview with Georg Mair. In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 18 , May 2, 2013, p. 22-25 .
2. ↑ The election sensation. (No longer available online.) Tageszeitung.it , February 26, 2013, archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; Retrieved February 26, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Joachim Gatterer: “Red mites in the plumage.” Social-democratic, communist and green-alternative party politics in South Tyrol , StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Wien / Bozen 2009, p. 164.
4. ↑ www.parlamento.it (October 30, 2015)
5. ↑ Florian Kronbichler on DP (Italian)
6. ↑ FAZ.net: "Italy's parliament is not worse than others either"