Viktoria Stadlmayer

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Viktoria Stadlmayer (born August 22, 1917 in Brixen ; † February 25, 2004 in Innsbruck ) worked as a senior civil servant in the South Tyrol department of the Tyrolean provincial government . Her life's work and her goal was the cultural unity of Tyrol , which has been divided between two states since the end of the First World War .

Origin and education

Viktoria Stadlmayer was the only child of the officer of the 2nd Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment Rüdiger Stadlmayer, who came from Upper Austria , and his wife Elisabeth, née Countess Wolkenstein-Trostburg . Due to the maternal descent from one of the oldest and best-known noble families in Tyrol, there were extensive family relationships in the world of the European nobility . Childhood and adolescence were shaped by frequent changes of location: Korneuburg , Bad Reichenhall , Aigen near Salzburg , Eisenerz , Vienna , Wallsee , Dortmund , Kramsach , Berlin and East Pomerania were the most important stops. She often spent the summer weeks at the Trostburg .

Stadlmayer attended the girls' high school in Innsbruck. Since she had been the girl's leader of the BDM since 1934 , she was expelled from the 6th grade in June 1935 because of her illegal activities. In 1936 she passed her school leaving examination in Berlin and began studying political science there at the German Political College . Two years later - after the “ Anschluss ” - she moved to Vienna, where she studied history and folklore at the university and also acted as a block warden for the National Socialist People's Welfare . In 1938 she applied for membership in the NSDAP as an “ old fighter ” . In 1941 Stadlmayer received his doctorate under Heinrich von Srbik and subsequently worked at the “Institute for Regional and Folk Research”: first in Innsbruck, after the establishment of the Alpine Foreland operational zone and the German occupation of Italy as far as Naples until the end of the war in Bolzano .

Co-designer of the Austrian South Tyrol policy

From May 1945 Viktoria Stadlmayer worked under Eduard Reut-Nicolussi in the “Landesstelle für Südtirol ” of the Tyrolean provincial government and thus came into direct contact with South Tyrol politics. Classified as less polluted in her Nazi activities, she was assigned the South Tyrol Department of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (“Department S”) in 1957, which she held until 1985; In 1969 she was appointed councilor .

During her term of office there were tensions between the German population of South Tyrol and the Italian state in the 1960s, which were also expressed in violence. She was valued as a clever advisor by Austrian and South Tyrolean politicians. She was a member of the Austrian delegation in New York under the leadership of Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky , which represented the South Tyrol problem before the UN in the autumn of 1960 and 1961 . She also took part in all important South Tyrol negotiations with Italy as a member of the Austrian delegation.

The important decisions that led to the autonomy of South Tyrol were also due to her participation. Because of her convinced commitment to the interests of the divided country, she was described by the later Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner as an “icon of Austrian South Tyrol policy”. The long-time governor of South Tyrol, Silvius Magnago , remarked that she would have made more politics than some politicians, even though she was not actually a politician. She was a thorn in the side of extreme Italian nationalists; in Italy she was imprisoned for a few weeks on April 29, 1961.

Historian and lecturer

In the course of her life Viktoria Stadlmayer has published many essays, contributions and comments on the South Tyrol question. After she retired as a civil servant at the end of 1985, she was a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck . As part of this work, she published the first, improved edition of the book “No Kleingeld im Länderschacher. South Tyrol, Trieste and Alcide Degasperi 1945/1946 ”.

Stadlmayer died on February 25, 2004 at the age of 87 after a brief illness. Stadlmayer has often described her personal identity as follows: First and foremost, I am a person, then a European, then a German, then an Austrian and finally a Tyrolean .

Appreciations

Among the awards she received are:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Gismann: Viktoria Stadlmayer - a biographical attempt , in: Riedl / Pan / Cescutti / Gismann (ed.): Tirol in the 20th century - Festschrift for Viktoria Stadlmayer , Athesia, Bozen 1989, p. 11
  2. ↑ On Stadlmayer's activities during the Nazi era see Rolf Steininger : Die Option. On Viktoria Stadlmayer's “Confrontation with recent literature on the history of South Tyrolean resettlement” , in: Innsbrucker Historische Studien 14/15 (1994), pp. 177–192.
  3. ↑ Robert Gismann: Viktoria Stadlmayer - a biographical attempt , p.12
  4. ↑ Robert Gismann: Viktoria Stadlmayer - a biographical attempt , p.14
  5. ↑ Riedl / Pan / Cescutti / Gismann (ed.): Tyrol in the 20th century - Festschrift for Viktoria Stadlmayer , Athesia, Bolzano 1989, p 287-289
  6. ↑ Robert Gismann: Viktoria Stadlmayer - The state of Tyrol is losing a deserved personality , in: Südtirol in Wort und Bild 2004, 2nd quarter, p. 31
  7. ↑ Christoph Pan : Laudation for Mrs. Hofrat Dr. Viktoria Stadlmayer , in: Südtirol in Wort und Bild 1989, 3rd quarter, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Stadlmayer, Viktoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2004
Place of death innsbruck