Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi [ ˈkarlo aˈd͡zːeʎːo ˈt͡ʃampi ] (born December 9, 1920 in Livorno , Tuscany region ; † September 16, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and from 1999 to 2006 President of Italy . Ciampi decided not to run again because of his age, and was succeeded by Giorgio Napolitano .
Life
Ciampi studied literature and philosophy, then law, including in Leipzig . In 1941 and 1946 he completed his studies. During the Second World War he was active in the Italian resistance movement. From 1963 Ciampi worked at the Italian Central Bank , where he held several important offices. In 1979 he became head of the central bank. Ciampi, who was considered a staunch European, played a major role in Italy's accession to the European Monetary System . He also managed to keep the Italian lira largely stable , despite domestic political crises .
During Italy's domestic political crisis in the early 1990s, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Ciampi appointed Prime Minister, who resigned a year later after Silvio Berlusconi had won the early elections. From 1996 to 1999 Ciampi was Minister of Treasury and Minister of Budget and Economic Planning under Prime Ministers Romano Prodi and Massimo D'Alema . Through its strict policy of budget consolidation, Ciampi succeeded in introducing the euro in Italy (“Signor Euro”). He later admitted that Italy would have been on the verge of national bankruptcy in 1998 if it had not been approved to join the euro zone .
On May 13, 1999 Ciampi was elected as the successor to Scalfaro as the tenth president of the Italian Republic. His election took place in the first round with 707 votes. He was very popular with many Italians, was known as the “Presidente con Anima” and was perceived as a serious counterpart to the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was in office during his term of office. Ciampi repeatedly refused to sign laws by the then ruling coalition. During his tenure, Ciampi tried to revive national rituals and symbols: For example, he had the "Altare della patria" ("Altar of the Fatherland") reopened at the Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II .
In 2005 he received the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen . The Italian was honored “in recognition of his life's work on European integration progress and as a mediator between the worlds”. Ciampi accepted the award on May 5th in the coronation hall of Aachen city hall . In 2006, despite many requests from all political blocks, he decided to follow the example of his predecessors and not run for a second term as president. Like all former presidents (Art. 59 Para. 1 of the Italian Constitution), Ciampi became a senator for life after the end of his term in 2006 , most recently he was the oldest incumbent senator.
In 2006 he was the patron of the Olympic Winter Games in Turin .
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was married to Franca Pilla, who was of the same age, since 1946, and they have a son and a daughter.
Honors
- 1982: Great Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1985: Commander of the Legion of Honor
- 1986: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1993: Great Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun ( Japan )
- 1995: Honorary Citizen of the City of Naples
- 1999: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
- 1999: Collane of the Finnish Order of the White Rose
- 1999: Collane of the Papal Order of Pius
- 2000: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- 2000: Order of the White Eagle
- 2000: Ouissam Alaouite
- 2000: Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross ( Brazil )
- 2001: Grand Cross of the Saint Olav Order
- 2001: Grand Cross of the King Tomislav Order
- 2001: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer
- 2001: Order of the Liberator San Martin
- 2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig, Faculty of Economics
- 2001: Collane of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique
- 2002: Grand Star of the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2002: Special level of the Grand Cross of the Federal Cross of Merit
- 2002: Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope
- 2002: Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of the White Lion
- 2002: Grand Cross with Collane of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- 2002: Collane Pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Order of Malta
- 2002: Order of the White Double Cross 1st class, Slovakia
- 2002: Grand Cross with diamonds of the Order of El Sol del Perú
- 2002: Honorary member of the Accademia della Crusca
- 2003: Grand Cross with Collane of the Star of Romania
- 2003: Nassau House Order of the Golden Lion
- 2004: Collane of the Order of the Marienland Cross
- 2004: Grand Cross with collar of the three-star order
- 2005: Charlemagne Prize
- 2006: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Charles
- 2008: Honorary doctorate from the economics faculty of the University of Augsburg
Trips abroad
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi carried out the following official trips abroad as President:
- 1999: Albania , Germany , Morocco , Finland , Israel and Palestine , France , Spain , Kosovo
- 2000: Switzerland , Egypt , Belgium , Poland , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Belgium, Brazil , United Kingdom , Netherlands , Germany, Belgium, Poland, France, Russia , Switzerland
- 2001: Kosovo, Jordan , Greece , Uruguay and Argentina , Croatia , Tunisia , Germany, Portugal , Kosovo
- 2002: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , South Africa , Germany, Morocco, Slovenia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Slovakia , Belgium, Egypt , Albania
- 2003: Algeria , Netherlands , Switzerland, Austria , Germany, Greece , France, Belgium, Romania , United States , Switzerland
- 2004: Spain, Hungary , Estonia and Latvia , Austria, Greece, Norway , China
- 2005: India , United Kingdom, Bulgaria , Germany, Malta , France, Croatia, Israel, Turkey
- 2006: Germany, Spain, Germany
Ciampi visited the Pope a total of 14 times in Vatican City (including six private visits ), and there was a visit to the Sovereign Order of Malta in Rome, a subject of international law , in 1999 and 2006.
literature
- Carlo Ciampi , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2006 of September 30, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of the Italian President
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg Bremer: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 17, 2016, p. 6.
- ↑ Tobias Piller, Italy goes crazy , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 1, 2018. p. 14.
- ↑ Pascal Oswald: A divided nation? - Reflections on the political past and present of Italy as reflected in the celebration of unification in 2011. In: www.risorgimento.info/beitraege4a.pdf, accessed on January 20, 2020, p. 2.
- ↑ Appreciation text on the website of the Charlemagne Prize
- ↑ AAS 94 (2002), No. 1, p. 85.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Membership database of the academy
- ↑ Brief descriptions of the trips on quirinale.it
- ↑ List of trips on archivio.quirinale.it
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ciampi, Carlo Azeglio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, President of Italy (1999-2006) |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno |
DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 2016 |
Place of death | Rome |