Aurelio Peccei

Aurelio Peccei (born July 4, 1908 in Turin , † March 14, 1984 in Rome ) was an Italian industrialist and co-founder of the Club of Rome .

Peccei (center) at the award ceremony of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1973, Frankfurt

biography

Aurelio Peccei was born and raised in the Italian industrial city of Turin. In 1930 he finished his studies at the University of Turin with a degree in economics . He worked in various positions in China on behalf of Fiat . In 1938 he returned to Italy. During the Second World War he joined the partisan group Giustizia e Libertà (German justice and freedom). Because of his membership of the anti-fascist movement, Peccei was imprisoned in February 1943 and not released until 25 months later. Immediately after the end of the war, he co-founded Alitalia in 1946 . In the course of his life he held various influential positions in both Italian and international companies and institutions.

Particular attention is paid to his life due to the fact that he co- founded the Club of Rome with Alexander King in 1968 . The publications of this association - the study published in 1972 on the future of the world economy The Limits to Growth - aroused worldwide media interest also because of their negative forecasts.

His son was the physicist Roberto Peccei (1942-2020).

Works

• Aurelio Peccei, Manfred Siebker: The limits of growth. Conclusion and follow-up studies , rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974. ISBN 3-499-16905-3
• Aurelio Peccei: The quality of people. Plea for a new humanism , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1977. ISBN 3-421-02702-1
• Aurelio Peccei: The future in our hands. Thoughts and reflections of the President of the Club of Rome , Molden, Vienna 1981. ISBN 3-217-01252-6 ; Goldmann Sachbuch 11342 ISBN 3-442-11342-3
• Aurelio Peccei, Eduard Pestel , Mihailo Mesarovic : The way into the 21st century. Alternative strategies for industrial society , Molden, Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-88919-014-6
• Aurelio Peccei, Daisaku Ikeda : It's not too late yet , Molden-Seewald, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-88919-005-7

Web links

Commons : Aurelio Peccei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Aurelio Peccei in the catalog of the German National Library
• Aurelio Peccei ( Memento of April 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Club of Rome , Europe (English)