Carlo Russo

Carlo Russo (born March 19, 1920 in Savona , Savona Province , Liguria ; † November 26, 2007 ) was an Italian politician of the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) between 1948 and 1979 and several times minister in different governments. He later served as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1981 to 1998 .

Life

Deputy and Undersecretary of State

After attending school, Russo studied law and then worked as a lawyer . In the elections of April 18, 1948 , he was elected for the first time for the Democrazia Cristiana (DC) as a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and represented the constituency of Genova for more than thirty years until June 19, 1979 . During the first and at the beginning of the second legislative period , he was a member of the Home Affairs Committee between June 1948 and February 1954 and secretary of this committee between July 1949 and July 1953 and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from July 1951 to February 1954. Furthermore, he was at the beginning of the second legislative period from June 1953 to February 1954 Vice-Chairman of the Interior Committee.

On January 19, 1954, he was appointed to his first government office by Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani and until February 10, 1954, he held the position of Undersecretary of State to the Prime Minister (Sottosegretario di Stato alla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri) in his first cabinet . In the subsequent Scelba cabinet he was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior (Sottosegretario di Stato all'Interno) between February 11, 1954 and July 6, 1955 and, in turn, Undersecretary of State to the Prime Minister in the first Segni cabinet from July 7, 1955 to May 19, 1957 and as such also Secretary of the Council of Ministers.

During the third legislative term Russo was from June 1958 to June 1960 a member of the Judicial Committee and between July 1959 and May 1963 a member of the Defense Committee. In addition, between July 3, 1958 and February 15, 1959, he was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Defense (Sottosegretario di Stato alla Difesa) and then from February 17, 1959 to March 25, 1960 in the second cabinet of Segni again as Undersecretary of State to the Prime Minister and as such again Secretary of the Council of Ministers. In the Tambroni cabinet and in the third and fourth Fanfani cabinets , he served between April 2, 1960 and November 30, 1962 as Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Ministry (Sottosegretario di Stato agli Affari Esteri) .

Minister and Judge at the ECHR

Prime Minister Fanfani called Russo on 30 November 1962 at the part of a government reshuffle for the first time in a minister: As the successor to Guido Corbellini he took over in the fourth Cabinet Fanfani the post of Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Ministro delle Poste e Telecomunicazioni) and has held this until February 23, 1966 also in the first Leone cabinet and in the first and second Moro cabinets . He was also in the fourth legislative period from January 1966 to June 1968 again a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and at the same time from June 1966 to June 1968 chairman of a special committee for the examination of draft laws for the structurally weak areas of northern Italy.

In the second Leone cabinet , Russo served as Foreign Trade Minister (Ministro del Commercio con l'Esterio) between June 24 and December 12, 1968, and then as Minister in the first and second Rumor Cabinets from December 12, 1968 to March 27, 1970 excluding the division for relations with Parliament (Ministro senza Portafoglio con delega per i Rapporti con il Parlamento) . In the third Rumor cabinet , from April 2 to August 6, 1970, he was initially only Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works (Sottosegretario di Stato ai Lavori Pubblici) and, most recently, between June 3 and August 6, 1970, again, Minister without portfolio for special political tasks and coordination as well as the special responsibility for the presidency of the UN delegation (Ministro senza portafoglio per i compiti politici particolari e di coordinamento e con speciale riguardo alla Presidenza della delegazione italiana all'ONU) .

In the following Colombo cabinet , Russo was again minister without portfolio for relations with parliament between August 6, 1970 and February 17, 1972, and subsequently in the first Andreotti cabinet from February 17 to June 26, 1972 minister without portfolio for the Relations between government and parliament, special political tasks and coordination as well as special responsibility for the presidency of the UN delegation. In addition, in this fifth legislative period from July 1968 to March 1970, he was initially a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Insurance and then again between April 1970 and June 1979 as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

During the sixth and seventh legislative periods, Russo also served as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies from March 1974 to June 1979.

At the beginning of 1981 Russo succeeded Giorgio Balladore Pallieri, who died on December 9, 1980, as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). He remained in this office until October 31, 1998 and was then replaced by Benedetto Conforti .

His younger brother is the lawyer and politician Giovanni Russo , who was a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) for the Cristiano Sociali (CS) and most recently for the Democratici di Sinistra (DS) between 1994 and 2001 .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (1st legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (2nd legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (3rd legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (4th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (5th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (6th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (7th legislative period)

Individual evidence

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