Manfred Pinzger

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Senator Manfred Pinzger (left) with Chamber Member Siegfried Brugger

Manfred Pinzger (born November 5, 1959 in Schlanders ) is an Italian politician of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). From 2006 to 2013 Pinzger was a senator and as such vice-president of the UDC-SVP-Autonomy group.

Live and act

Pinzger grew up with his three siblings in Vetzan and attended the business school in Silandro . The building of two companies and his political career began at a young age. In 1975, then 16-year-old Pinzger became a member of the SVP's younger generation . For 21 years he was a member of the municipal council or municipal committee of Schlanders.

Pinzger was President of the Südtiroler Wirtschaftsring (SWR) from 2004 to 2006, for nine years a member of the management committee of the Stelvio National Park, as well as a board member of the Hoteliers and Innkeepers Association (HGV) and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Bolzano (representation of tourism).

In the state parliament elections in 2003, Manfred Pinzger received 8,837 preferential votes and missed entry into the South Tyrolean state parliament by 21 votes.

2006 candidate Pinzger in the Italian parliamentary elections, and passed over one constituency Merano in the Senate one. As a senator, Pinzger was vice-president of the UDC-SVP-Autonomy group, a member of the IX. (Agriculture) and the XIV. (EU Politics) Legislative Commission in the Senate, as well as Vice-President of the Extraordinary Commission for Price Controls.

From 2006 to 2008 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a member of the Assembly of the Western European Union . In 2008 he was confirmed as a senator. In the 2013 parliamentary elections , Pinzger decided not to run again.

Manfred Pinzger was elected the new President of the HGV on May 14, 2013 by the state committee with a narrow majority. He is the fifth president in the 50-year history of the Hoteliers 'and Innkeepers' Association (HGV). He succeeds Walter Meister, who had headed the HGV for the previous 20 years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on preferential votes at state level 2003 , Province of Bozen, accessed on July 26, 2010
  2. ↑ Roman surprise candidates. stol.it, December 12, 2012, archived from the original on February 3, 2013 ; Retrieved February 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Pinzger's freestyle. Tageszeitung.it , May 14, 2013, archived from the original on June 7, 2013 ; Retrieved May 15, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Pinzger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlanders