Anton of Tschurtschenthaler

Anton von Tschurtschenthaler (* 23 October 1888 in Bolzano, † 1 January 1967 ibid) was the company leader of the emperor huntsmen at Col di Lana. Edit LifeQualtext

The Tyrolean family Tschurtschenthaler comes from Sexten. Franz Alois Tschurtschenthaler settled in Bolzano, worked in the banking business and as a wine merchant. From 1868 to 1871 he was president of the Chamber of Trade and Commerce of Bolzano and from 1864 to 1874 vice-mayor of the city of Bolzano. His son Hermann, together with four brothers in 1893, was elevated to the aristocracy with the title of Helmheim. The youngest of his eleven children was Anton von Tschurtschenthaler, a hero of Col di Lana who entered the Austrian military history. Oberleutnant von Tschurtschenthaler was the company leader of the Kaiserjäger at Col di Lana when he was blown up in the night from the 17th to the 18th of April 1916.

After an Italian war, he emigrated to New York, where one of his brothers lived. Subsequently, he established himself as a farmer in the Dominican Republic before returning to Europe for health reasons. There he worked first in Innsbruck, then in Munich in the banking service.

In the Second World War, von Tschurtschenthaler, who had assumed German nationality in the course of the option, served as a lieutenant in the military administration in Munich, before being appointed commander of Bologna in 1944. In 1945, he was captured by partisans and sentenced to death by a partisan court by shooting. Before that, however, he was transferred by Americans into a regular war prisoner, from which he was released after a few months and returned home.

In 1944 he married Nini of Strobele. After the Second World War he returned to South Tyrol and became director of the Central Association of the South Tyrolean wine-growing and cellar cooperatives. Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 1120625947 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 44145602385001360979 | Wikipedia People Search

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