Giovanni Battista Lenzi

Giovanni Batista Lenzi (13 April 1951 – 1 June 2009) was an Italian politician who was a member of the Regional Council of Trentino-Alto Adige from 2003 until his death aboard Air France Flight 447 in 2009. He was a member of the thirteenth and fourteenth councils.

Biography Giovanni Battista Lenzi was born in 1951 in Samone, Trentino, where he became a councillor in 1980 and later became the mayor in 1985 He was the district president of Bassa Valsugana e Tesino from 1996 until 2003. In the fourteenth council, which lasted from 2008 until 2013, Lenzi was one of seven members of the Union for Trentino parliamentary group.

Lenzi was on Air France Flight 447 returning home from visiting Italian Brazilian people alongside Rino Zandonai and Mayor of Canal San Bovo Luigi Zortea when it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people were killed, including Lenzi himself; his body was recovered in December 2011. He was succeeded as a councillor by Gianfranco Zanon of the Mixed Group parliamentary group, while Renzo Anderle succeeded him in his parliamentary commission position.

He had two daughters with his wife Maria Grazia.