Bruno Kessler Explained

Bruno Kessler
Office1:President of Trentino-Alto Adige
Term Start1:7 January 1974
Term End1:24 July 1976
Predecessor1:Giorgio Grigolli
Successor1:Flavio Mengoni
Office2:President of the Autonomous Province of Trento
Term Start2:30 December 1960
Term End2:13 March 1974
Predecessor2:Riccardo Rosa
Successor2:Giorgio Grigolli
Office3:Member of the Senate
Term Start3:1983
Term End3:1992
Constituency3:Mezzolombardo
Office4:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start4:1976
Term End4:1983
Constituency4:Trento
Birth Date:1924 2, df=y
Birth Place:Peio, Trentino, Italy
Death Place:Trento, Trentino, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Profession:Politician, lawyer
Spouse:Cecilia Tommasoni
Children:Giovanni Kessler
Alma Mater:University of Padua

Bruno Kessler (17 February 1924, in Peio – 19 March 1991, in Trento) was an Italian politician. He served as President of the Autonomous Province of Trento from 1960 to 1973. He was the father of Giovanni Kessler.

In 1962 he founded the Istituto Trentino di Cultura (now Fondazione Bruno Kessler), which gave rise to the University of Trento.

Biography

In 1943 he obtained his classical maturity at Rovereto and in 1950 graduated in Law from the University of Padua.

He was president of the Autonomous Province of Trento from 1960 to 1974. In 1962 he founded the "Trentino Institute of Culture", the first core of the University of Trento. The Faculty of Sociology was the first of its kind in Italy. He supported the 1972 Autonomy Statute and the Provincial Urban Plan. He was also elected in the Senate in 1983 and 1987. He died in 1991 during the X Legislature and later replaced by Alberto Robol.

In 2007 the Trentino Institute of Culture became the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK).

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