Flaminio Piccoli
Flaminio Piccoli (born December 28, 1915 in Kirchbichl , Tyrol , Austria , † April 11, 2000 in Rome ) was an Italian politician .
Life
During the Second World War Piccoli entered his military service and became an officer in a regiment of the mountain troops ( Alpini ). After combat missions in Albania and Greece , he was captured by units of the German Wehrmacht after the surrender of Italy in 1943 . After his escape and his re-capture by German units, shortly before the end of the war, he managed to escape again from a train that was supposed to deport him to Poland .
After the war he joined Alcide de Gasperi's Democrazia Cristiana (DC) as a member . From 1946 to 1977 he headed the Trentino daily newspaper L'Adige . From June 1958 to April 1994 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ). Between January and November 1969 he was the first party secretary of the DC.
In the 1970s, from March 1970 to May 1972, he was Minister for State Industrial Holdings three times in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Mariano Rumor , Emilio Colombo and Giulio Andreotti . He was then from May 1972 to October 1978 group chairman of the DC in the Chamber of Deputies.
In July 1978 he became president of the DC after the assassination of the former Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Brigades on May 9, 1978. However, he had not been able to achieve the goal of becoming Prime Minister of Italy himself. He was once described by Moro, one of his closest internal party rivals, as “a mixture of renunciation and opportunism ”.
Between 1979 and 1984 he was a member of the 1st European Parliament . In February 1980 he was re-elected as party secretary of the DC to succeed Benigno Zaccagnini and held this office until May 1982.
Piccoli remained politically active until his death and became a member of the Cristiani Democratici Uniti (CDU) after the collapse of the DC in 1992 due to a series of massive corruption scandals .
Web links
- Flaminio Piccoli on rulers.org
- Entry on Flaminio Piccoli in the Members' database of the European Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piccoli, Flaminio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician, member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchbichl , Tyrol , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2000 |
| Place of death | Rome |