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Exhibitor
Verein Südtiroler Geschichte/Bozen

Chairman
Roland Lang
Laubengasse 9
39100 Bozen

Exhibition design
DP-art Gmbh
Albeins/Brixen
www.dp-art.net

Graphic design
effekt! GmbH
Neumarkt an der Etsch
www.effekt.it

Exhibition curators
Dr. Hubert Speckner and
Sylvia Speckner. M.A. (Vienna)

Translation from the German language
Studio Traduc, Bozen

 

Exhibition committee Chairs

Provincial MP (ret.) Dr. Bruno Hosp/Klobenstein

Provincial MP (ret.) Dr. Eva Klotz/Bozen

Provincial MP (ret.) Dr. Franz Pahl/Welsberg-Taisten

 

Exhibition Committee Members

Dr. Helmut Golowitsch
Altenberg bei Linz

Prof. Dr. med. Erhard Hartung
Innsbruck and Meerbusch (Germany)

Christoph Mitterhofer
Meran

Dr. Herlinde and Mag. Klaudius Molling
Innsbruck

Efrem Oberlechner
Olang

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Olt
Vienna

Dept. Head (ret.) Dr. Othmar Parteli
Jenesien

P. Prof. Mag. Reinald Romaner OFM
Bozen

Attorney-at-Law Mag. Andreas Schwaighofer
Vienna

 

1.1 Sepp Mitterhofer

Unterhasler farmer in Obermais/Meran

* Feb. 22, 1932 + Nov. 21, 2021

A leading member of the Liberation Committee of South Tyrol (BAS), Chairman of the South Tyrolean Heritage Association (SHB) from 1990 to 2011, and initiator of this exhibition.

After the “Night of Flames” in 1961, Sepp Mitterhofer was imprisoned and subjected to merciless torture. At the First Milan Trial of 1964, he was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, serving almost eight years behind bars.

The verdict encompassed several different crimes:

  • Possession of explosives – 8 months;
  • An attack on railroad transportation security (two cases) – 2 years and 4 months;
  • An attack on electrical stations (several cases) – 1 year and 6 months;
  • An attack on the Constitution – 5 years and 4 months;
  • Political conspiracy – 1 year and 4 months;
  • A serious case of property damage – 9 months.

 

The District Attorney had demanded a total of 16 years and 4 months of imprisonment.

After the incarceration of Sepp Mitterhofer, ownership of the family farmstead, the Unterhaslerhof in Obermais, had to be transferred to his eldest son in order to prevent it from being seized by the Italian state.

Sepp Mitterhofer devoted his life to the freedom of South Tyrol and the reunification of Tyrol.

 

Bronze bust by Michael Burger