Julius Perathoner

Julius Perathoner ( born February 28, 1849 in Teodone in Brunico, † April 17, 1926 in Bolzano ) was from 1895 to 1922 the last German Mayor of Bolzano, 1901-1911 imperial parliaments in Vienna and from 1902 to 1907 member of the Landtag in Innsbruck.

Julius Perathoner was one of the most important exponents of the German Freedom Party in Tyrol. In 1922 he was forcibly deposed in the course of the march to Bolzano by the fascists as mayor and replaced by a fascist official mayor.

Life

Perathoner great-grandfather came from Selva di Val Gardena to become court officials in Bressanone. His father Ulrich was a tax official in Brunico. He was married twice and had several children; from the second marriage with Julie of Klebelsberg came the son of Julius.

Even as a boy he came with Bolzano in contact since he attended elementary school here. The middle school he began in Bressanone, but graduated from the Franciscan School of Bolzano. He studied at the University of Innsbruck law and after graduating in 1872 as a trainee in a Bolzano law firm.

In 1883 the young lawyer married to Bertha von Mörl of Appiano. The marriage produced three sons.

1892 Julius Perathoner was for the German Freedom Party - they had an absolute majority - elected to the municipal council of Bolzano. The acting mayor for fifteen years Dr. Josef von Braitenberg was reelected in late December 1894 but did not participate in the election and also retired from the council of.

Importance

Julius Perathoner is considered one of the most important political figures of the century in Tyrol.

His work as mayor led Bolzano to modernity, made from the small town a center of early tourism and gave the city new economic and cultural impulses.

Many of his urban planning and local policy decisions shape Bolzano today.

In Perathoner term as Mayor drop the establishment of the Municipal Museum (1905 ), theater ( 1913-1918 ), the tram to Gries (1909 ) and Laives, Kaiserjägerstraße Barracks ( 1898), the Talfer bridge (1900), the promenades on both sides of Talfer (1901-1905), the elementary schools for boys (1911 ) and girls ( in 1908, Goethe school), the Etschwerke ( 1898) and the new city hall (1907 ), as well as the incorporation of Dodiciville (1911 ).

The German national- liberal -minded Perathoner was in dispute Nationality of the Habsburg monarchy as moderate and man of compensation. Even in his inaugural address as mayor on 15 March 1895, he stressed:

" In national relationship, I will not forget that Bozen is a German city and should remain such. But I will keep well in mind that a number of fellow Italian tongue is in our city, what the Germans want to live in peace and harmony. The recognition of the German character of our city, on the part of our Italian fellow citizens on the one hand, respect for the through beautiful language and outstanding culture, distinguishing Italian nation the other, and the two tribes shared patriotic feelings have a happy relationship between Germans and Italians in our city created whose turbidity is spared in the interests of both parties hopefully. "

Perathoner 1878 was co-founder and later longtime chairman of the Men 's Choral Society and the German School Society Bolzano Bolzano ( 1881). Since 1872 he was a member of Bolzano gymnastics club.

Honors

At Julius Perathoner the Perathoner Stone remembers the Munich district Harlaching, which was inaugurated in 1927 and documented the ties between Bavaria and Tyrol.

In Bolzano, a street was named in 1913 by Julius Perathoner. This is the road between the old town and the district of Bolzano Dodiciville. After the seizure of Fascism the Perathonerstrasse was renamed "Via Piave " and still bears the name unchanged. At Perathoner today reminds one about 200 meters long road south of Walther von der Vogelweide Square (near the place where Perathoner had built the theater ). The return naming the Piavestrasse after 1945 was thwarted by the opposition of the Italian majority parties in the Bolzano council. 2012, the passage at the Bolzano Amonnhaus was dedicated as Dr.- Julius- Perathoner Passage to the memory Perathoner.