Caspanaze Simma

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Caspanaze Simma

Kaspanaze Simma (actually Kaspar Ignaz Simma ; born September 27, 1954 ) is an Austrian farmer and former politician ( Die Grünen ).

politics

Basically, Kaspanaze Simma can be described as a conservative politician who, as a farmer, sees an intact environment as one of the most important political goals. Green, environmental thinking was always more important to him than alternative ideas.

ÖVP farmers' union

Initially, Simma was a member of the farmers 'association (or young farmers' association) of the ÖVP . As a member of a working group made up of ÖVP politicians and non-party members, he was involved in the development of a project called the Vorarlberg Model , which primarily opposed blind trust in scientific and technical progress.

After the Vorarlberg model was rejected by the party in 1983, he turned his back on the ÖVP.

The green

From 1983 Kaspanaze Simma tried to implement his ideas in the relatively young green movement. As the top candidate of the Alternative List of Austria, which entered into an electoral alliance with the United Greens of Austria, he ran for the Vorarlberg state elections in 1984 . His party not only made it into the state parliament, but was also able to achieve a sensational result of 13 percent of the vote when it first appeared.

Simma was instrumental in the success of the Greens in Vorarlberg. Above all, his unconventional demeanor and straightforwardness earned him a lot of sympathy. He caused a stir, for example, when he distributed cheese from the Bregenzerwald to his competitors on election evening or when he appeared in his usual peasant clothes for the swearing-in in the state parliament. His outward appearance and his new, simple type of politics (looking for the positive in the opponent - "politics of love") made Simma known far beyond the borders of Vorarlberg. The picture of the bearded farmer with a cardigan graced many front pages of international magazines.

In the state elections in 1989 he ran for the United Greens of Austria, but could not get back into the state parliament without an electoral alliance. It was not until the 1994 elections that he was able to move back into the state parliament as the top candidate of the party The Greens - The Green Alternative , merged from the United Greens and the Alternative List . At the end of the legislative period, he no longer ran and left the state parliament in 1999. From 1990 to 2004 he was a member of the municipal council in his home town of Andelsbuch in the Bregenzerwald .

Today Simma speaks a bit bitterly about the Greens: “Unfortunately, many Greens think very one-sidedly. Many do not see what would have been possible there. ”He is also of the opinion that the Greens are positioning themselves too far to the left.

Private

The organic farmer Kaspanaze Simma is married to Lucia. Together with their five children, they run his farm in Andelsbuch in the Bregenzerwald as a self-catering , which he took over from his parents in the 1970s.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ State of Vorarlberg (ed.): Entry of the “Greens” into the state parliament ( memento of the original from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vol.at 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. . In: Vorarlberg Chronicle. Without a date. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  2. ↑ See short bio in the articles in Aurora magazine, see web links.
  3. ↑ See Ö1-Menschenbilder, February 2009, see web links.
personal data
SURNAME Simma, Kaspanaze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simma, Kaspar Ignaz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian farmer and politician (Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1954