Julius Perathoner (Dietenheim (

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), 28 February 1849 – Bolzano, 17 April 1926) was an Austro-Hungarian politician who became an Italian citizen after the

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. He was one of the most important exponents of the

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and the last mayor of German ethnicity of the City of

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from 1895 to 1922. On 3 October 1922 the democratically elected Perathoner was forcibly deposed as mayor during the from

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and replaced by a fascist functionary.La Città ricorda il 90° della Marcia su Bolzano (in Italian)
Retrieved on 14 Feb 2018

Political views

He was the last German-speaking mayor of the capital of the current

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. Despite his being a German Nationalist he was a staunch opponent of fascism. In addition to his being a mayor of Bolzano he also was a member of the Imperial Parliament in Vienna from 1901 to 1911 and at the Diet of

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from 1902 to 1907. The movement he was the head of was committed to a modernization of the country by the way of division the State from the Church, unlike the conservative party (the Tiroler Volkspartei, TVP) program, which was very strong in the countryside.http://www.comune.bolzano.it/UploadDocs/11971_Oggetto_del_mese_it__ottobre_2012_final__1_.pdf, 16.12.2012 (in Italian). Retrieved on 14 Feb 2018 Perathoner being one of the major adherer of the Tyrolean pangermanist movement joined the Volksbund, an organization which was founded in 1905, the extremist Wilhelm Rohmeder was among its members. Perathoner was also a supporter of the Germanization of the

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. He proposed to detach the

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and the Ampezzano from the districts of the Italian Tyrol, namely the

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, and to join them instead to the German-speaking district of

References

1849 births 1926 deaths People from Bruneck People from the County of Tyrol Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1901–1907) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Mayors of Bolzano {{Austria-politician-stub