Josef Stecher (politician, 1930)

Josef Stecher (born January 30, 1930 in Graun im Vinschgau , Italy ; † September 26, 1989 ) was a South Tyrolean politician.

biography

In 1939, Stecher moved to Bregenz in Vorarlberg as part of the option . There he completed an apprenticeship as a dressmaker. After 1945 he had first contacts with Austrian communists . In the early 1950s he moved back to South Tyrol, where he enrolled in the Italian Communist Party . After a party training session in Rome , he played a key role in setting up a German-speaking party section in South Tyrol. From 1960 to 1964 he was a councilor in Mals , from 1965 to 1973 in Bolzano . From 1973 to 1983 he represented his party in the South Tyrolean state parliament and thus also in the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol .

literature

• Joachim Gatterer: "Give everything, expect nothing!" The Communist Party of Italy in the province. A contribution to transregional contemporary historiography in South Tyrol , in: Hannes Obermair et al. (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion. Festschrift for Hans Heiss , Folio Verlag , Vienna / Bozen 2012, pp. 301–324, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 .

Web links

• Entry on Josef Stecher in the representative database of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)