Angiolo Martignoni

Angiolo Martignoni (born April 3, 1890 in Lugano ; † January 9, 1952 ibid) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , Ticino State Councilor and National Councilor of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP).

Life

Angiolo Martignoni was a son of the accountant, city councilor of Lugano and Ticino grand councilor Gaspare Martignoni and the Adele born Martinoli. He attended high school in Lugano and then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bern . In 1916 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Ticino civil parishes and in 1917 wrote the schema storico-giuridico del patriziato ticinese . Afterwards he worked as a lawyer and notary in Lugano. In 1921 he was elected as a conservative member of the Ticino Constitutional Council and sat in the Grand Council from 1926 to 1927 (as a replacement for his late father) and again from 1951 to 1952 (for the Vecchi conservatori e agrari ) .

From 1927 to 1947 he worked as a Councilor of State and headed first the Finance and Justice Department and then from 1935 the Agriculture and Interior Department. He was particularly committed to agriculture. After the First World War he worked for the magazine L'Adula and sympathized with fascism . In April 1930 he met Benito Mussolini in the Sala del Mappamondo in Rome , from whom he received the substantial sum of 80,000 francs at the time, against the promise to move Ticino politics in general and the conservative party in particular to the right. This trade was not discovered until the 1970s.

literature

• Mauro Cerutti: Fra Roma e Berna. La Svizzera italiana nel ventennio fascista. Franco Angeli, Milano 1986, ISBN 9788820445928 , pp. 337-348.
• Davide Dosi: Il cattolicesimo ticinese ei fascismi: la Chiesa e il partito conservatore ticinese nel periodo tra le due guerre mondiali. Edizioni Universitarie Friburgo Svizzera, Saint Paul, Friburgo 1999, ISBN 9782827108565 .
• Angiolo Martignoni. In: Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1980, pp. 22, 103.
• Nathalie Tami: Angiolo Martignoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 15, 2007 , accessed March 27, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Angelo Martignoni. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 5 Maillard - Monod. Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1929, p. 35.
2. ^ Mauro Cerutti: Fra Roma e Berna. Milano 1986, pp. 337-348.