Carlo Donat-Cattin

Carlo Donat-Cattin

Carlo Donat-Cattin (born June 26, 1919 in Finale Ligure , province of Savona , † March 18, 1991 in Cremona , Monaco ) was an Italian politician of the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1958 and 1979 ( Camera dei deputati ) and then from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1984 to his death in 1991 a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) . He held several ministerial posts in various governments and was Minister of Health between 1986 and 1989, among others .

Life

Deputy and Undersecretary of State

Donat-Cattin was a journalist and was elected as a candidate for Democrazia Cristiana (DC) in the elections of May 25, 1958 for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) , which he held for more than twenty years until the June 27 elections 1979 belonged. During his membership in parliament he was in the third legislative period from June 1958 to May 1963 a member of the Committee on Labor, Social Assistance and Pension Provision and Cooperation. In the fourth legislative period he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Emigration from July 1963 to January 1965.

He held his first government office from December 8, 1963 to June 24, 1968 as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of State Participations (Sottosegretario di Stato alle Partecipazioni Statali) in the first , second and third Moro cabinet . During the fifth legislative period he was again a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Emigration from July 1968 to August 1969. At the same time he was in the fifth, sixth and seventh legislative periods from July 1968 to June 1979 a member of the Committee on Budget, Programs and State Participation.

minister

On August 5, 1969, Donat-Cattin was appointed ministerial for the first time by Prime Minister Mariano Rumor in his second cabinet as Minister of Labor and Social Security (Ministro del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale) . This post he held in the third cabinet Rumor , Cabinet Colombo and in the first cabinet Andreotti to 26 June 1972. In the sixth legislative period he was in July 1972 briefly Chairman of the Committee on Budget, programs and public investments. In the fourth Rumor cabinet he held the post of minister without portfolio for special measures in southern Italy between July 7, 1973 and March 14, 1974 (Ministro senza Portafoglio con delega per gli interventi straordinari nel Mezzogiorno) .

In the fourth and fifth Moro cabinets and the third and fourth Andreotti cabinets , Donat-Cattin served as Minister for Industry, Trade and Crafts from November 23, 1974 to November 25, 1978 (Ministro dell'Industria, Commercio e Artigianato) .

Senator and Minister of Health

After leaving the Chamber of Deputies, Donat-Cattin became a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) on June 3, 1979, and initially represented the interests of the Piedmont region until July 11, 1983 . During this eighth term he was a member of the Finance and Treasury Committee from July 1979 to July 1983. After Giuseppe Miroglio's resignation , he became a member of the Senate again on February 15, 1984 and was again a member of the Budget Committee in this ninth legislative period from February 1984 to September 1986.

On 1 August 1986 Donat-Cattin took over in the second Cabinet Craxi the office of Health Minister (Ministro della Sanita) and had this in the sixth Cabinet Fanfani , Cabinet Goria and in the Cabinet De Mita held by July 22, 1989th At the same time he was a member of the Senate Committee for Hygiene and Health in the ninth legislative period from September 1986 to July 1987. During the tenth legislative period that followed, he was a member of the Senate Committee for Labor and Social Security from August 1987 until his death on March 18, 1991. Most recently, he held the post of Minister for Labor and Social Security in the sixth Andreotti cabinet from July 22, 1989 until his death on March 18, 1991.

Others

Carlo Donat-Cattin was one of the leading figures of the Forze nuove , a Christian - socially oriented movement within the Democrazia Cristiana (roughly comparable to the CDA in Germany).

He was close friends with the rector of the Pontifical University of the Salesians (UPS), the religious college of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Rome, Tarcisio Bertone , who later became cardinal state secretary and the right-hand man Pope Benedict XVI. was.

After his death Donat-Cattin was buried on the Cimitero monumentale di Torino in Turin . His son Marco Donat-Cattin belonged to the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Prima Linea (PL) under the code name Comandante Alberto .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Chamber of Deputies
• Entry on the Senate homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Salesian for Pope Benedict. Interview with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone by Gianni Cardinale. In: 30giorni No. 08/2006 (August 2006), viewed on October 18, 2017.