Luigi Negri (politician, 1879)

Luigi Negri (born August 12, 1879 in Tres , † June 7, 1957 in Milan ) was an Italian politician.

biography

Negri was born in 1879 in the village of Tres in the Non Valley , which at that time belonged to the County of Tyrol and thus to Austria-Hungary . He completed a law degree at the University of Innsbruck and then worked as a civil servant in the Lieutenancy . In Innsbruck he was a well-known exponent of the Italian-speaking community. After the outbreak of World War I , he was arrested by the Austrian authorities and - like many other Trentino residents  - held in the Katzenau internment camp . After a year, thanks to an intervention by Alcide Degasperi , he was able to move to his family in the Braunau am Inn refugee camp and to Levico before the end of the war .

In 1918 Negri came to South Tyrol , occupied by Italian troops , where he was employed as civil administrator of the city of Merano . He held this office until the beginning of 1920. He then worked on the international commission that determined the exact course of the new Italian-Austrian border . In 1923 he took over the post of general secretary of the municipality of Merano. Since he did not exercise his office to the satisfaction of the fascist rulers , he was transferred to Assisi in 1931 . At the end of 1933, however, he returned to Merano, where he now worked in banking.

After the end of the Second World War , Negri was one of the founders of the Democrazia Cristiana in Merano. In 1948 he was able to win a mandate for the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol and at the same time the South Tyrolean state parliament , which he held until 1952. In the regional government from 1949 to 1952 he was assessor for community demarcation, fire services and the creation and management of land registers. In the state parliament he served as vice-president from 1948 to 1950 and then as president until the end of the legislative period. As a result, he still represented the DC in the Merano municipal council before he died in a Milan clinic in 1957 after a long illness.

literature

• Paolo Valente : Nero ed altri colori: Italiani a Merano tra Austria ed Italia. Frammenti dell'anima multiculturale di una piccola città europea. Vol. II . Temi, Trient 2004, ISBN 88-85114-74-1 , pp. 385-386

Web links

• Entry on Luigi Negri in the representative database of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)

Remarks

1. ↑ An obituary appeared in the South Tyrolean daily newspaper Dolomiten in the edition of June 8, 1957 (No. 132, p. 5). The date January 14, 1960 recorded on the website of the South Tyrolean Parliament is incorrect.