Attorney emerit. Dr. Alfons Simma died at the age of 81.
BREGENZ On November 3, 2020, lawyer Dr. Alfons Simma from the consequences of a stroke. For him, everything was always his extended family. His lived faith gave him serenity and dignity to the end.
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Dr. Alfons Simma was born on February 25, 1949 with his twin brother Guntram as the fifth and sixth children of his parents, who lived in Hittisau and Bregenz.
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After graduating from high school in Bregenz, he studied law at the University of Innsbruck and was able to finish his studies in a very short time. During his studies he became a member of the Austrian Academic Association in Innsbruck. He then did his military service in Bregenz and made himself available to his comrades as a soldier’s spokesman.
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Law firm association
He then completed the so-called court year and was then a trainee in the renowned law firm Dr. Norbert Kohler in Bregenz. After passing the bar exam, he was entered as a lawyer on the list of Vorarlberg lawyers on October 1, 1977. At this point, he and his older brother, Dr. Otmar Simma, who was already a lawyer in Dornbirn, founded a law firm. In 1979 he married his Hemma, the daughter of the former mayor of Bregenz and Vorarlberg state parliament president Dr. Karl Titian. The marriage resulted in the two daughters Ilse and Maria, who are also married in the meantime and of whom Alfons Simma was each made a grandfather twice. His professional focus as a lawyer was business law and contracting as well as activities related to the restructuring of companies. In addition, he was involved in numerous foundations.
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Family life
His hobbies were gardening in summer – especially at his second home in Hittisau – and skiing and ice skating in winter. Above all, however, he devoted himself to caring for his family life. Alfons Simma ended his professional activity on February 25, 2014 when he started his retirement pension.
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The youth politician
At the beginning of the seventies, Alfons Simma reactivated the young ÖVP Bregenz together with Arnulf Summer. He became local chairman in 1971, a short time later district chairman and was elected regional chairman in 1972. Under his leadership, the Young ÖVP changed from a “leisure club” to a political youth organization that brought its own ideas into the political discussion and also knew how to defend its positions vehemently. Alfons Simma coined the term that the young ÖVP must be the “leaven in the party”. She also became an “uncomfortable” partner of the Federal Young ÖVP, and more than that.
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A long-time companion of Alfons Simma, former President of the State Parliament and former Mayor of Bregenz, Dipl.-Vw. Siegfried Gasser recalls: “I had very close contact with Alfons Simma, both when I was in high school and at the University of Innsbruck. At that time he lived with his parents in the village in Bregenz and had kept in touch with me a lot. He was an attentive, active fellow who appreciated contact with all of his friends. His interactions with older politicians over the generations was not always pleasant, but very honest. Everyone who knew him better and thus valued him will keep him in honor. He was regional chairman of the young ÖVP and had built up a circle of friends in Bregenz. This generation, to which Harald Pfarrmaier also belongs, remained loyal to him until his death. “
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