Jörg Pircher

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Jörg Pircher (born February 23, 1926 in Lana ; † August 11, 1988 ) was an assassin of the South Tyrol Liberation Committee and a long-time functionary of the South Tyrolean Rifle Federation and the Lana Rifle Company.

Life

From an early age he was an enthusiastic activist for the autonomy of South Tyrol and believed that politics could not implement a solution to improve the position of South Tyroleans through minority rights in terms of language and culture in Italy. He sought the support of Austria for the organization of violent resistance. Therefore, on November 27, 1960, he traveled with Sepp Kerschbaumer to visit the then Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky . Jörg Pircher was arrested on July 20, 1961. Pircher and other members of the Tyrolean resistance group were tortured in custody. In the trial against him before the Milan court, Pircher confessed to being a Tyrolean and thus refused to admit to the Italian state. He justified this by saying that this was the only way to ensure the protection of his six children. In the trial, Pircher was sentenced to 14 years and seven months in prison, but was released as the last defendant in the 1st Milan Trial in 1969 after serving eight years and nine months. Then he returned to his homeland. In 1984, in his blood and tears speech in Lana, he warned of the resurgence of violence, which the Italian people interpreted as a call for new acts of violence. Pircher died on August 11, 1988 after a long illness.

Official of the South Tyrolean Rifle Federation

Pircher had been a founding member of the Lana rifle company since 1958. In 1959 he was elected district major of the South Tyrolean Schützenbund ( Burggrafenamt ), which he stayed until 1968 despite his imprisonment. In 1978 he was elected deputy to the state commander, which he remained until his death. He promoted the revival of the archery in the burgrave office.

Aftermath

A shopping center was built a few years ago on the site of the Hofmanshof, where Pircher was born. A memorial stone in honor of Jörg Pircher was erected there.

Web links

  • Jörg Pircher on the homepage of the South Tyrolean Schützenbund district of Burggrafenamt / Passeier

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Karl Peterlini : South Tyrolean bomb years: from blood and tears to a happy ending? , Edition Raetia, 2005, ISBN 978-8872832417 , p. 376 online
  2. ↑ Hans Karl Peterlini: The practical test. South Tyrolean autonomy between terror and normalization, in: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol, Volume 5: 1980-2000, ISBN 88-7283-204-7 , p. 43
  3. ^ Hans Karl Peterlini: Bombs from Second Hand, Edition Raetia, 1992 Online
personal data
SURNAME Pircher, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian South Tyrolean activist and functionary of the South Tyrolean Schützenbund
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lana
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1988