Karl Mitterdorfer

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Karl Mitterdorfer (born January 28, 1920 in Gries , today in Bozen ; † January 27, 2017 in Bozen) was a politician of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).

Life

Mitterdorfer attended the Italian elementary school and the Istituto Tecnico in his South Tyrolean hometown . As a teenager he joined a German Catholic youth group that was banned by the fascist rulers. After graduating from high school in Italy, he became an employee of the Südtiroler Sparkasse in 1938 . On the option question , he decided in 1939 for the German Reich . He was drafted into the Luftwaffe in Germany in 1940 , served as a fighter pilot in Jüterbog during World War II and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class , as an officer .

After the war, he completed a degree in political science at the University of Innsbruck , which he completed with a thesis on the development and development opportunities of South Tyrolean agriculture. After working in Innsbruck, he returned to South Tyrol in 1953 and worked again at the Südtiroler Sparkasse. Mitterdorfer, a member of the rifle company "Major Josef Eisensteck" Gries , was from 1961 to 1984 the state commander of the South Tyrolean Rifle Federation , which initially had to largely cease its activities after the 1962 bomb attacks. He was also a founding member of the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute and the “ Michael Gamper Factory”.

From 1958 to 1976 Mitterdorfer was a member of the South Tyrolean People's Party in the Chamber of Deputies and from 1976 to 1987 in the Italian Senate . From 1969 to 1976 he was also a member of the European Parliamentary Assembly and from 1983 to 1988 a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . From 1977 to 1981 and from 1990 to 1994 he was President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities .

Mitterdorfer became honorary senator of the University of Innsbruck in 1980 and honorary state commander of the South Tyrolean shooting association in 1984. In 1998 he received honorary citizenship of Klausen , his mother's hometown. He was also a bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit .

He died on January 27, 2017, one day before his 97th birthday.

literature

  • Heinz Degle: Experienced History. South Tyrolean witnesses tell - 1918-1945 . Athesia, Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-88-8266-334-6 .
  • Former Senator Karl Mitterdorfer . In: Dolomites , 28./29. January 2017, p. 17
  • South Tyrolean provincial government (publisher): Südtirol-Handbuch 1986 . Brochure, Bozen 1986, p. 78 ( online )

Works

  • Structure of South Tyrolean Agriculture: Development and Development Opportunities , [Innsbruck], undated (Diploma thesis University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Law and Political Science, undated, 73 pages, Innsbruck University Library, Verbund-ID-Nr .: AC07851428).
  • with Gert Ammann : Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky - watercolors . Edition Galerie Maier, Innsbruck undated
  • Paul Flora - Early Drawings . Atheria 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former Senator Karl Mitterdorfer is dead. Südtirol Online , January 27, 2017, archived from the original on January 27, 2017 ; accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ltn. Karl Mitterdorfer, fighter pilot of the German Air Force. Jagdgeschwader 300, Burkhard Otto, January 28, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ Diploma thesis by Karl Mitterdorfer (University of Innsbruck, undated)
  4. ↑ Academic honors from the University of Innsbruck . ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) University of Innsbruck, September 15, 2010, as of September 26, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mitterdorfer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (South Tyrol), member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Semolina
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017
Place of death Bolzano