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Josef Sele (20 November 1897 – 5 August 1969) was a politician from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1939 to 1949.
Life
Sele was born on 20 November 1897 in Vaduz as the son of Konrad Sele and Maria Beck. He trained as a bricklayer and worked as the profession in South Tyrol from 1915 to 1916 and then in both Liechtenstein and Switzerland from 1917. He was a participant in the 1918 Swiss general strike in Schaffhausen. He became a member of the Liechtenstein Workers' Association in 1920, and was it's president from 1941 to 1947, where he was a proponent of worker safety. He was the editor of the Liechtensteiner Nachrichten from 1928 to 1930.
He was elected to the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1939 as a member of the Patriotic Union as a part of the unified list between the party and the Progressive Citizens' Party for the formation of a coalition government, where he served until 1949. During this time, he was a member of the Landtag's finance and state committees. He was a deputy member of the Landtag from 1949 to February 1953. In the February 1953 Liechtenstein general election, Sele ran as a candidate for the Workers' and Peasants' Party, a party that emerged from the Liechtenstein Employees' Association.
Sele married Berta Kindle (28 August 1906 – 6 January 1970) on 7 April 1932 and they had three children together. His daughter, Emma Brogle-Sele, was also a politician. He died on 5 August 1969 in Chur, aged 71 years old.
Honours
Liechtenstein: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein (1956)
References
Bibliography
Vogt, Paul (1987). 125 Jahre Landtag (in German). Vaduz: Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein.