Josef Menz-Popp

Josef Menz-Popp (born September 28, 1883 in Marling ; † May 29, 1975 ) was a South Tyrolean farmer and politician.

Menz was a Burggräfler farmer who held a mandate for the Christian Social Party in the Tyrolean Parliament from 1914 to 1918 and also in the short-lived Tyrolean National Council in 1918 . In the interwar period he was involved in the German Association . During the option , he was one of the "debauchers".

After the Second World War , Menz was one of the founders of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). From 1946 to 1950 he was chairman of the Provincial Association of Farmers of the Province of Bolzano , and from 1948 to 1951 he succeeded Erich Amonn of the SVP. In 1948 he was elected to the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol and at the same time to the South Tyrolean state parliament, to which he belonged until the end of the legislative period in 1952.

Web links

• Entry on Josef Menz-Popp in the representative database of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Actually Josef Menz , Popp is a farm name .
2. ^ Rolf Steininger : South Tyrol: a minority conflict of the twentieth century. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ 2003, ISBN 978-0-7658-0800-4 , p. 76
3. ↑ ^{a b} Carlo Romeo : Castel Firmiano 1957 e dintorni ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file), accessed February 24, 2015  
4. ^ History. Südtiroler Bauernbund, accessed on February 24, 2015 .