Dino Grandi

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Dino Grandi (1925)
Dino Grandi (front left), 1932

Dino Grandi (born June 4, 1895 in Mordano near Bologna , † May 21, 1988 in Bologna) was an Italian fascist politician . From 1929 to 1932 he was Foreign Minister and from 1939 to 1943 Minister of Justice of monarchical-fascist Italy .

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Grandi came from a farming family. In 1913 he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna . He works as a journalist for the newspaper il Resto del Carlino and graduated after the end of the First World War in 1919 when he was still in the army. After his release he moved to Imola , where he began his career as a lawyer .

Grandi began his political career on the political left before joining Benito Mussolini in 1914 . During this period he was, along with the future leader of fascism , a strong interventionist who took the view that Italy would only gain political and international importance with active participation in the First World War. His home province was initially ruled by left-wing forces, so that Grandi, as the leader of fascism in the region, encountered considerable resistance: On October 17, 1920, he was injured in an ambush by five pistol shots; two days later his office was ransacked by left-wing militants. On December 1, 1920, Grandi published the first issue of the weekly L'Assalto (The Attack). Also around the end of 1920 he recognized Mussolini as the leader of the movement and also consented to its conversion into a party, which he had previously strongly opposed.

Accordingly, Grandi founded the Fascist Party in Emilia-Romagna and became its General Secretary in 1921. In the elections of May 15, 1921, Grandi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies . In 1923 he became Vice-President of the Chamber, in 1924 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior and in 1925 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being appointed Foreign Minister in September 1929 after Mussolini had resigned from this office.

Grandi tried to maneuver Italy into a neutral position between the European states and especially to build a good relationship with Great Britain. In 1932 Mussolini removed him from office. The reason for this was his approval of the League of Nations . Grandi was then ambassador to London until 1939. In particular, during the Italo-Ethiopian War and during the subsequent deterioration in the international situation up to the outbreak of World War II , he achieved a damage limitation in the Italian-British relations.

After his recall, he was first Minister of Justice and then Chairman of the Chamber of Corporations, the pseudo-parliament of the fascist state. He achieved greater political importance on July 24, 1943, when the Grand Fascist Council removed Mussolini at his request. In the remaining fascist state of the Italian Social Republic , Grandi was sentenced to death in absentia for high treason in January 1944, but fled into exile in Spain in August 1943 and then lived in Portugal (1943-1948), Argentina and São Paulo in Brazil .

In 1948 Grandi was sentenced to imprisonment for his role in the fascist system, but was soon given amnesty. He returned to Italy in the 1960s and died in Bologna in 1988 .

Fonts

  • Dino Grandi racconta . Rialto Casa, Venice 1945.
  • L'Italia fascista nella politica internazionale . Littorio, Rome 1930.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dino Grandi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giorgio Petracchi: Dietro le quinte del convengo Volta sull'Europa. Un piano per sovvertire l'Europa centro-orientale . In: Maddalena Guiotto, Wolfgang Wohnout (ed.): Italy and Austria in Central Europe in the interwar period / Italia e Austria nella Mitteleuropa tra le due guerre mondiali . Böhlau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20269-1 , p. 99-101 .