politics
The Salzburg civil rights activist Eckehart Ziesel has died. He was co-founder and club chairman of the citizens’ list in the city of Salzburg and campaigns for the protection of grassland.
Eckehart Ziesel was a judge at the Salzburg Regional Court and President of the Salzburg Animal Welfare Association. Together with Richard Hörl and Herbert Fux, he founded the citizens’ list in the city of Salzburg, which moved into the Salzburg municipal council in October 1977. With his party colleagues Ziesel fought for the preservation of the urban landscape in Freisaal in the south of the fortress mountain.
From 1982 to 1987 the judge was the club chairman of the citizens’ list and played a key role in shaping the party’s politics for the first ten years. “Without the common struggle of the comrades-in-arms of the ‘United Initiatives – Save Salzburg’, Freisaal and Hellbrunner Allee would have been built, there would have been no effective protection of the old town and no effective protection of the old town and the cityscape of Salzburg,” said the citizens’ list in a broadcast on Sunday with.
Book Richard Hörl
Civil rights activist Richard Hörl published a largely autobiographical book in 2014 about the resistance of Salzburgers against city governments of the SPÖ and, for a short time, also under the leadership of the ÖVP. Hörl’s documentation and last pamphlet was published in the “Edition Tandem” of the publisher, teacher, reform pedagogue and former Protestant pastor Volker Toth. Title: “The Salzburg Citizens’ Revolt 1972 – 1982”.
Hörl describes Ziesel in his book as “a judge in the first row of a civil revolt is something like a proof of the credibility and the moral justification of the revolt for every citizen”.