Background
Sima was born in Saifnitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Camporosso, Val Canale (German: Kanaltal), Tarvisio, Province of Udine, Italy).
Sima was born in Saifnitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Camporosso, Val Canale (German: Kanaltal), Tarvisio, Province of Udine, Italy).
He attended elementary school, Hauptschule, and, from 1933 to 1937, a commercial vocational school.
He entered the civil service of the Carinthian provincial government in 1938. He became Secretary of the Carinthian Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria) in 1945, after the end of World World War II allowed the Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria) to resume a role in politics, and held the position until 1956. In 1949, he was elected to the Landtag of Carinthia, in which he"d serve until 1974.
He was forced out as governor in 1974 in favor of Leopold Wagner, amidst a controversy over bilingual German/Slovene place-name signs, in which Sima was accused of being too accommodating toward the Carinthian Slovenes.
Sima died in 2006, in Klagenfurt.
During his schooling, he suffered 6 months" political imprisonment in 1935, under Austrofascism.
He became a member of the Carinthian government in 1956, deputy governor of Carinthia in 1963, and governor (Landeshauptmann) in 1965.