Hans Plaikner

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Hans Plaikner (born May 17, 1923 in Geiselsberg ; † September 25, 1964 at Sass Rigais ) was a South Tyrolean politician.

biography

Hans Plaikner was born in 1923 on a farm in Geiselsberg in the municipality of Olang . After elementary school he attended the Vincentinum in Brixen . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . An injury on the Eastern Front made him unfit for the field in 1942. He spent the end of World War II in American captivity. In 1946 he was able to make up his Matura, then he completed a degree in agricultural sciences .

Plaikner was politically active in the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). In 1956 and 1960 he was elected to the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol and thus also to the South Tyrolean parliament . For a few months in 1961 he represented the imprisoned Hans Stanek as SVP state secretary. As part of the internationalization of the political debate about an extended autonomy for South Tyrol , he was sent by his party as an observer to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1962 . In 1964 Plaikner died on a climbing tour on the Sass Rigais .

literature

  • Friedl Volgger : Hans Plaikner † . In: Volksbote , No. 40, October 1, 1964, p. 1.

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