Fulvio Suvich

Fulvio Suvich (born January 23, 1887 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary ; † September 5, 1980 in Trieste, Italy ) was an Italian politician and diplomat in the time of fascism .

Life

He came from a Jewish family from Trieste and grew up in what was then the most important port of the Habsburg Monarchy. As a teenager he met the Irish writer James Joyce, who lived there, and from whom he took English lessons. He later studied law at the University of Graz . There he became the leader of a group of students who campaigned for the establishment of an Italian-speaking university in Trieste. However, this did not come about and Suvich increasingly lost his loyalty to the Habsburg multi-ethnic state and politically approached Italian irredentism . When the First World War broke out , he fled his hometown and voluntarily joined theItalian army that fought against Austria-Hungary from 1915. Suvich took part in the Isonzo battles near Gorizia and Bainsizza, as well as in battles in Trentino.

After the end of the war he returned to Trieste, which had now become part of the Kingdom of Italy. Together with his childhood friend Paolo Cuzzi, also a lawyer, he opened a law firm there, which soon included well-known companies in Trieste among its clients, such as the Sparkasse Triest ( Cassa di Risparmio ) and the insurance group RAS ( Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà ). In addition, he continued to be politically active and joined the nationalist party. In his hometown, where there had been communist workers' uprisings towards the end of the war ( January strike ), Suvich has now founded an anti-Bolshevik league. In the course of the border disputes with the newly founded SHS state , there were more and more conflicts between the Italian population and the Slovenian and Croatian residents of Trieste and its surroundings. After Dalmatia, with the exception of the city of Zara and some islands, came to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, contrary to the expectations of the irredentists, many Italian nationalist intellectuals approached fascism, including Attilio Tamaro, the historian Francesco Salata and Fulvio Sulich. It was also these who developed a profound aversion to everything Slavic and only brought the germ of the later "slavofobia" into the fascist movement.

In 1921, Sulich was elected to the parliament in Rome on a fascist electoral roll as a Trieste MP . There he dealt with the topics of finance and economic policy. In 1923 his faction merged with the Partito Nazionale Fascista by Benito Mussolini . In 1926 Mussolini appointed him to the government as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance.

In early 1934, Engelbert Dollfuss hoped for Italian support in maintaining Austrian independence from Germany. As Mussolini's representative for the Austrian question, Suvich demanded the elimination of social democracy and the restructuring of Austria based on the fascist model.

Web links

Newspaper article about Fulvio Suvich in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Berger: In the shadow of the dictatorship , Volume 7 of studies on economic history and economic policy, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2000, ISBN 978-3-205-99206-6 , Google Books, p. 353
↑ Joyce Museum Trieste: Cuzzi, Paolo seen 2 May 2011
↑ Micha Brumlik, Susanne Meinl, Werner Renz: Legal Injustice: Racist Law in the 20th Century , Campus Verlag, 2005. From 1932 to 1936, Suvich was State Secretary in the Italian Foreign Ministry. He was thus the right-hand man of Benito Mussolini, who was foreign minister himself at the time. ISBN 978-3-593-37873-2 , Google Books, p. 158
^ Kölnische Zeitung: December 12, 1938; Online archive of the German Research Foundation: P20 Suvich, Fulvio; 1887-1980: Document 0003
↑ Luciano Monzali: La Jugoslavia e l'assetto dell'Europa centrale nella politica estera dell'Italia fascista (1922-1939) . 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. 160 f .
^ Norbert Schausberger : On the prehistory of the annexation of Austria . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): "Anschluss" 1938 . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06898-2 , p. 5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Suvich, Fulvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian politician and diplomat in the time of fascism
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trieste , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	5th September 1980
Place of death	Trieste , Italy

[1] Peter Berger: In the shadow of the dictatorship , Volume 7 of studies on economic history and economic policy, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2000, ISBN 978-3-205-99206-6 , Google Books, p. 353

[2] Joyce Museum Trieste: Cuzzi, Paolo seen 2 May 2011

[3] Micha Brumlik, Susanne Meinl, Werner Renz: Legal Injustice: Racist Law in the 20th Century , Campus Verlag, 2005. From 1932 to 1936, Suvich was State Secretary in the Italian Foreign Ministry. He was thus the right-hand man of Benito Mussolini, who was foreign minister himself at the time. ISBN 978-3-593-37873-2 , Google Books, p. 158

[4] Kölnische Zeitung: December 12, 1938; Online archive of the German Research Foundation: P20 Suvich, Fulvio; 1887-1980: Document 0003

[5] Luciano Monzali: La Jugoslavia e l'assetto dell'Europa centrale nella politica estera dell'Italia fascista (1922-1939) . 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. 160 f .

[6] Norbert Schausberger : On the prehistory of the annexation of Austria . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): "Anschluss" 1938 . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06898-2 , p. 5 .