[Lapide a Frangart]
Sepp Kerschbaumer nacque nel 1913 a Frangart, oggi frazione di Eppan an der Weinstraße, il 9 novembre 1913.
Il padre Josef rimase ucciso war in 1917, Luise's mother left him an orphan at nine years.
He received his education first at Rainerum, the Salesian Institute of Bozen, then at the Abbey of Neustift, and finally, after assuming the management of the family shop, he managed to finish the school in preparation for the profession of a merchant in 1927 Brixen. In 1933 he served in the military was occupying the Italian peninsula, which thanked him and confining him the following year for two years to follow close to power, along with fifty other South Tyrol.
An amnesty allowed him to return to Frangart in 1935.
In 1936 he married Mary Spitaler: marriage were born six children, the latest being in 1957. When
Südtiroler Umsiedlung put the South Tyrol faced with the choice between the prospect of assimilation and forced emigration, Kerschbaumer chose the latter, like most German-speaking South Tyrol. Like most German-speaking South Tyrol, had already returned during the war, after realizing that there was to be expected from the Reich big aid, the German annexation of the two years were spent by reference in Südtirol Bozen Polizeiregiment.
The common trend in the Italian peninsula is still to unite
tout court in National's South Tyrolean activists and combatants, having fought in the Wehrmacht, even among retrieved from elders reservists, is one of the events commonly worn to test this conclusion. As you'll see a biography of Kerschbaumer has a number of facts, starting with his undoubted profession of faith to end its refusal to cut shed blood, that does not make his political practice compatible with an ideology based on racial superiority ' physical removal of any opponent. A
Frangart enrolled in the postwar South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) and began to devote himself to political activities to be considered as a secondary activity only to this work. It seems that the little time he had left for the family and his extreme generosity with those who were in need are sometimes been a source of conflict with his wife.
Throughout his life he behaved like Sepp Kerschbaumer devout Catholic. Every morning at five o'clock he went to a church service in Bozen and in custody very often recited the rosary. Of Spartan habits and strict with himself, turned his own self-discipline and propriety (did not drink alcohol) weapons in the fight when he began to support their political demands with the hunger strike.
In the early '50s, tired of the conciliatory position taken by the party, Kerschbaumer then began to conceive what would become the Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol (BAS), the Committee for the Liberation of South Tyrol, which was co-founder in 1956. Giuseppe Togni
In 1957, then Minister of Public Works for the state that occupies the Italian peninsula, by telegram warned the mayor that the city of Bolzano would be built a new neighborhood for five thousand people.
The news was greeted by massive popular protests that culminated in that of 17 November 1957 at Schloss Sigmundskron thirty thousand people attended. On that occasion, he coined the slogan Magnago Silvius von
los Trient , which replaced a
los von Rom then in use. On that occasion Kerschbaumer distributed leaflets praising the freedom of the Tyrol, in contrast to the more commonly found in those years the BAS identified their enemies in the institutions, and not the subjects of the state that occupies the Italian peninsula. A Bozen was organized a counter-demonstration, during which slogans were dropped
that comparing the South Tyrolean pigs: the decades pass, but the style of political communication "Western" is unmistakable at every opportunity and can not deny himself.
The actions of the BAS were at first entirely bloodless. Kerschbaumer drapes hung with red and white flag of South Tyrol to light poles and other street furniture: Once he was caught and punished with ten days in jail. Reacted with the first hunger strike. It was not fair that the Communists be allowed to display their flags everywhere, and that this was prohibited from South Tyrol.
Sepp Kerschbaumer Another occasion on which he worked a lot for the cause was that the process
Pfunderer in 1958, the night of August of 1956 a group of young South Tyrol had come to quarrel with two policemen, he was born a brawl and one of the policemen was later found dead in bed of a stream. Eight defendants received harsh punishments at first in a process so fraught with procedural irregularities and form (the South Tyrol was, inter alia, denied permission to use an interpreter certified) who in 1960 was the Federal Republic of Austria to bring the case to European Court Human Rights, which declared the application partly admissible, the last grade del processo le pene per i condannati furono sensibilmente ridotte.
Le celebrazioni per
Andreas Hofer del 1959 si tennero in un'atmosfera resa pesante dal divieto di manifestare. A Bozen avrebbe dovuto svolgersi l'inaugurazione di un monumento al combattente tirolese
Peter Mayr , che dietro il duomo di Bozen era stato fucilato nel 1810. Un carosello delle jeep inviate dalla gendarmeria causò un ferito.
Tra il 1959 ed il 1960 Sepp Kerschbaumer giunse per gradi alla conclusione che i giri di conferenze e le azioni di propaganda avevano portato a risultati molto deludenti: la politica dello stato che oltre ad occupare la penisola italiana occupava anche il Südtirol non ne aveva subìto alcuna influenza. Lo spirito comunitario del BAS ed i contatti con ambienti austriaci resero possibile far arrivare in Südtirol dalle tre alle quattro tonnellate di esplosivo, ma con l'alzarsi del livello dello scontro si acuirono anche le tensioni interne al BAS e quelle con i simpatizzanti austriaci di recente acquisizione. Sepp Kerschbaumer, il suo rifiuto ad uccidere e la sua idea di una guerriglia fondata su atti dimostrativi entrarono in aperta collisione con quanti, come il tirolese austriaco Wolfgang Pfaundler, avevano idee ben più recise su come alzare il livello dello scontro. Almeno fino al suo arresto, avvenuto dopo la "notte dei fuochi" del 1961, fu comunque la linea di Kerschbaumer a prevalere.
E proprio secondo la linea di Kerschbaumer nel 1961 furono compiuti vari gesti dimostrativi, on which there was the mandatory order to avoid victims. The monument to the Spirit of Fascism
Waidbruck of blows, until the summer and other similar actions against the symbols of what is considered in effect an occupation authority to place Tramin, Schlanders and Marling. On February 1, a charge of high potential great harm to the house of Ettore Tolomei in Montan, the objective is of particular symbolic importance because the Ptolemies, who died in 1952, had been among other things, the creator of the topography through which passed the devouring cultural alienation operation staged by the occupiers.
The police responded with a few searches and arrest. With
Feuernacht del dodici giugno gli atti dimostrativi del BAS toccano il loro punto più alto, con la mobilitazione di decine e decine di attivisti. Più di trenta piloni dell'alta tensione vengono fatti saltare con il plastico nel tentativo di interrompere la fornitura di corrente elettrica alla città di Bozen, percepita come il centro di irradiazione delle politiche colonialiste dell'occupante, e soprattutto alla sua zona industriale.
La data non è casuale: quell'anno era la ricorrenza della festa, particolarmente sentita dai patrioti sudtirolesi, del Sacro Cuore di Gesù. Una ricorrenza che prevede l'
accensione di fuochi veri e propri su crinali e vette, in ricordo di quanto fatto nel 1796 dai combattenti antinapoleonici di Hofer, who had been banned by the occupying authorities in the thirties.
The attempt fails, also because of unfamiliarity with the model of most of what was humble and not at all willing to shed blood, the dead came to be there anyway, in the person of John Elder enclosure having
Postal that died trying to defuse one of the weapons.
A month later, in
Kleine Feuernacht jump eight pylons.
The police put their hands on some Steiner, whose car is found explosives, and through him to stop even Kerschbaumer comes along with dozens of other activists. In the barracks
Eppan, Sepp Kerschbaumer spent sixteen hours straight building with his hands up.
in jail awaiting trial, he spent the day praying. For fellow Höfler and Gostner, died in custody in circumstances far from clear in the short span of two months (at least Gostner would personally told of heavy mistreatment) came to recite the rosary crowns of eight in one day.
The three years of detention were spent first in Verona, then to Venice, then again on the Verona, working until the day he lost four fingers of one hand under a press. He endured the accident with the faith that was their own.
the anniversary of the Sacred Heart in 1962 hung all'inferriata of his cell, a white handkerchief and a red, cosa che il quotidiano "Alto Adige" non mancò di rimarcare.
Finalmente il processo fu fissato e celebrato a Milano a partire dall'estate del 1964, e riguardò oltre novanta imputati, sessantotto dei quali sudtirolesi. Kerschbaumer, cui vennero anche meno alcuni testimoni a difesa, ammise ogni addebito ed affermò di aver agito per motivi politici:
"Wir wollten die Landesautonomie" .
Nel luglio 1964 in primo grado otto imputati ricevettero condanne superiori ai quindici anni. Le motivazioni della sentenza furono pubblicate a novembre.
Sepp Kerschbaumer, per il quale ne erano stati chiesti ventiquattro per attentato alla Costituzione, cospirazione politica e distruzione di edifici, fu condannato a quindici anni ed eleven months. His experience
case closed here. 7 or 8 December 1964 Sepp Kerschbaumer died of a heart attack in prison in Verona. He had fifty years and his death raised obviously more of a doubt, not least because many letters had tried very hard to terminate treatment of prisoners of South Tyrol. An autopsy performed by a doctor in South Tyrol confirmed the actual presence of heart problems.
His funeral was followed by thousands of people Frangart. With Sepp
in custody, and more than ever after his death, the movement he helped found to attack the symbols stopped and started killing people, taking a political practice in which every second Kerschbaumer evidence would not have, throughout his life as a militant, nothing to do.
Even forty years after an announcement posted on the "Dolomiten" invited the South Tyrol to a church service in memory of the fallen and Kerschbaumer for freedom and self-determination of their country.
"It is not enough to have a flag is needed if they are of men. is not sufficient to know the truth: we need men who proclaim. freedom that is not enough hover in the sky, the men who need to grasp, and bring them down here. " Sources used:
http://www.etika.com/022/22kers03.htm
http://www.grueneverdi.bz.it/mikrosites/riccardo-dello-sbarba/artikel-und-beitraege/chi-ringraziano-gli-schuetzen.html
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Kerschbaumer
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