Rosa Franzelin-Werth

Rosa Franzelin-Werth (born on January 7, 1940 in Girlan as Rosa Werth ) is a South Tyrolean politician.

biography

Franzelin-Werth attended the school of the Mariengarten Abbey in St. Pauls and then worked for ten years at the till of a butcher's in Lana . In 1964 the future mother of two married. In 1969 she became politically active for the first time when she was elected as the first woman on the list of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) to the Lana municipal council. In addition, from 1970 she was involved in various functions in the Catholic Association of Working People .

In 1973, Franzelin-Werth, as a candidate for the SVP's workers' wing, was able to win a mandate for the South Tyrolean state parliament and, at the same time, the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol , to which she subsequently belonged for 19 years. From 1988 to 1991 she was President of the State Parliament, then Vice-President of the State Parliament. In addition, from 1988 to 2001 she was in charge of the professional association of housewives (BGH) she founded. In 1992 Franzelin-Werth left the state parliament and regional council in order to take over the presidency of the South Tyrolean Housing Institute (WOBI) from 1993 to 2005 .

In 1990 Franzelin-Werth received the medal of honor of the state of Tyrol "in recognition of her tireless commitment to the socially disadvantaged, her great merits in residential construction and her commitment to the upgrading of women in society" . In 2005 she was the first woman to be awarded honorary citizenship of the Lana community.

literature

• South Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Südtirol-Handbuch 1992 . Brochure, Bozen 1992, p. 83 ( online )
• South Tyrolean Parliament (Ed.): Women and Politics . Bozen 2003, p. 70 ( PDF, 411 kB )

Web links

• Rosa Franzelin-Werth , biography on the website of the Peace Bell of the Alpine Region (PDF file)
• Entry on Rosa Franzelin-Werth in the database of representatives of the South Tyrolean Parliament (PDF)