Silvius Magnago (February 5, 1914 – May 25, 2010) was a South Tyrolean Italian politician.

Biography

Magnago was born in Merano, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and named Meran. He studied law at the University of Bologna and graduated with a JD in June 1940. Because of his rejection of Italian Fascism he chose to move to Germany in 1939, but remained first in South Tyrol, where he worked in Bolzano for a commission to estimate the assets of the Tyroleans following the South Tyrol Option Agreement. He was eventually called in the German Army as a lieutenant, and was sent to the Eastern Front. He was chairman of the South Tyrolean People's Party from 1957 to 1991 and governor (Landeshauptmann) of the autonomous province of South Tyrol from 1960 to 1989.

He died in Bolzano on May 25, 2010.

Bibliography

• Hans Benedikter: Silvius Magnago: ein Leben für Südtirol. Athesia, Bozen 1983, ISBN 88-7014-296-5.
• Claudio Calabrese: Silvius Magnago: il patriarca (1914–2010). Praxis 3, Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-88-96134-08-5.
• Hans Karl Peterlini: Silvius Magnago. Das Vermächtnis: Bekenntnisse einer politischen Legende. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-7283-300-1.
• Gottfried Solderer (ed.): Silvius Magnago: eine Biographie Südtirols. Edition Raetia, Bozen 1996, ISBN 978-88-7283-053-6.

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