Josep Moll i Marquès

Josep Moll i Marquès (born December 7, 1934 in Ciutadella , Menorca , † August 26, 2007 in Palma ) was a Spanish politician and journalist.

Life

He was born the son of the linguist and philologist Francesc de Borja Moll . He has lived on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca since early childhood . He studied chemistry and was a working student at BASF in Ludwigshafen . In the summer months of 1957 and 1958 he worked with the Kolping Society at German military cemeteries in French Normandy . In 1959 and 1960 he worked as a tour guide for Hotelplan on Mallorca. Here he met his later wife, Karin Kammerich from the Rhineland , with whom he had three daughters in Germany. He acquired the language and Interpretation Institute in Munich a diploma as an interpreter and was there from 1961 to 1963 lecturer for Spanish . He published a Spanish grammar for Germans. From an early age he was also committed to the Catalan language .

Josep Moll i Marquès became editor of the radio program broadcast by the ARD for Spanish guest workers in Germany, in particular the program Dígamelo en alemán of the Bavarian radio . His activity led to a conflict with the authorities of the Franco dictatorship in Spain at the time . He was therefore not allowed to enter Spain from 1967 to 1974. In 1968 he joined the SPD and founded the Munich branch of the socialist Spanish PSOE .

Josep Moll i Marquès returned to Spain in December 1977 after the end of the Franco dictatorship. He ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Palma de Mallorca. From 1979 to 1983 he was a member of the PSOE in the island council of Mallorca, from 1983 to 1995 in the parliament of the Balearic Islands , from 1987 as its vice-president. Then he was opposition leader in the city council of Palma de Mallorca. In 1999 he gave up his political offices.

He then worked as a permanent employee of the German-language Mallorca magazine . In October 2003 he became chairman of the German-Mallorcan association Associació Alemanya i Mallorquina (AAM). He held the office until 2005. Josep Moll i Marquès published various articles in German magazines and worked as an author of German-language non-fiction books. Around 2005 he moved to Binissalem with his wife .

He died unexpectedly of heart failure . The memorial service took place in Palma de Mallorca in the church of Sant Francesc .

Works (selection)

• This is how we are Mallorcans , 2001
• The Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands , 2001 (translation into German )
• Mallorca , 2005
• Modern Spanish (as a co-author),

literature

• Joan-Antoni Adrover i Mascaró: 600 questions about Mallorca. Campos, 2010, ISBN 978-84-614-1808-4 , page 168.

Web links

• Gabriele Kunze, Mallorca mourns a good person , obituary in Mallorca Magazin from August 30, 2007