Franz Plaickner

Franz Josef Plaickner (born May 4, 1930 in Franzensfeste ; † January 6, 2011 ) was a South Tyrolean trade unionist and politician .

biography

Plaickner was initially involved in the South Tyrolean Trade Union Federation (SGB), which in 1952 had joined the Christian Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori (CISL) for legal reasons . When he saw that the concerns of German- and Ladin-speaking workers were no longer adequately represented in the national Italian trade union, he founded the Autonomous South Tyrolean Trade Union Federation (ASGB) in 1964 together with Otto Gander and Alois Singer . The ASGB, whose first chairman was Plaickner, developed in the following years into the union organization with the largest number of members in South Tyrol. From 1968 to 1973, Plaickner was also a representative of the South Tyrolean People's Party and a member of the Regional Council Trentino-South Tyrol and thus also of the South Tyrolean Parliament .

Web links

• Entry on Franz Plaickner in the representative database of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)
• Georg Pardeller on the death of ASGB founder Franz Plaickner: A life for the South Tyrolean workers . Article from January 11, 2011 on Landtag Fraktion-svp.org
• Our deceased companions: Franz Plaickner, co-founder of the ASGB and former member of the state parliament . Article on iflow.it, the website of the information publication of the Autonomous South Tyrolean Trade Union Federation
• Franz Plaickner's death picture on sterbebilder.schwemberger.at