Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Nitti ( born July 19, 1868 in Melfi, † February 20, 1953 in Rome) was Prime Minister of Italy from 23 June 1919 to 21 May 1920 and again from 21 May 1920 to 15 June 1920.

Studies and journalism

Nitti studied law in Naples and worked as a journalist. He was a correspondent for the Gazzetta Piemontese and the Corriere di Napoli. In 1891 the book Il socialismo cattolico, in which he noted certain similarities between socialism and the value system of Catholicism appeared. In 1892, Nitti was a lecturer in economic policy and in 1898 professor of finance at the University of Naples.

Policy

In 1904, Nitti went for the Radical Party in parliament. Between 1911 and 1914 he was Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce under Giovanni Giolitti. In the cabinet of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, he was Minister of Finance from 1917 to 1919.

On June 23, 1919, Nitti Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior at the same time. From March 20th 1920, he was also Colonial Secretary until May 21, 1920 as of June 26, 1919 and September 26, 1919 Secretary of State, and on March 14, 1920 to May 21, 1920 to the Colonial Secretary. In his presidency were great social unrest as a result of the Versailles Treaty. On June 16, 1920 Giovanni Giolitti took over the office of prime minister.

Nitti was in opposition to fascism. In 1922 he resigned his parliamentary mandate in protest against the fascist government. After numerous hostility of the fascists that had begun during the elections of 1921, he emigrated on June 24, 1924 in Zurich. Since 1926 he lived in Paris and organized from there the anti-fascist resistance. In 1943 he was arrested by the SS and sent to Tirol ( Itter, Hirschegg ). Nitti was only after the end of World War II returned to Italy. He was elected to the Senate, first for the National Democrats, later the Socialist Party of Italy. Nitti was against the Italian participation in NATO.

Works

  • Il socialismo cattolico (1891 )
  • L' Italia all ' alba del secolo XX ( 1901)
  • Principi di scienza delle finance (1903 )
  • L'Europa senza pace (1921, dt 1922, inter alia, as the peaceful Europe without and 1923 as Europe at the abyss )
  • La tragedian dell ' Europe ( 1923)
  • Prime Minister ( Kingdom of Italy )
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy )
  • Minister of the Interior (Italy )
  • Minister of Finance (Italy )
  • Minister of Agriculture (Italy )
  • Colonial Secretary (Italy )
  • Senator (Italy )
  • Member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Italy)
  • PSI Member
  • Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Italian
  • Born in 1868
  • Died in 1953
  • Man
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