Giancarlo Stucky

Giancarlo Stucky (born November 3, 1881 in Venice , † October 18, 1941 ibid) was a Swiss entrepreneur in Venice.

Stucco mill in Venice

After the death of his father (murder by a mentally ill person) in 1910, Giovanni Stucky's son took over the management of the industrial family business, at the center of which was the monumental stucco mill in Venice . He also entered into other industrial and financial investments, founded the Società Anonima Pila Pilla for the production of batteries and the textile company Fortuny (in cooperation with the painter and fashion designer Mariano Fortuny of the same name ) around 1917 , but also dealt with cultural projects and was around in Executive committee of the Venetian Opera.

Palazzo Grassi

The world economic crisis brought the respected entrepreneur into trouble. Guido Beer (1885–1938) as head of Mussolini's cabinet and 1933–34 Prefect of Venice's Stucky may not have been well-disposed, and Stucky's relationship with leading representatives of fascist economic policy , such as Giuseppe Volpi , who had been friends for many years , also proved problematic. Stucky had declined Volpi's invitation to set up a large mill cartel in the 1920s - in the end, the Stuckymühle was taken over by a Volpis company. There were also difficulties with his Swiss citizenship , as state payments for war damage to businesses were reserved for Italian citizens. The art collection and the family seat of Palazzo Grassi , which his father had bought, had to be sold, and the management of the mills slipped away from him. Whether Stucky's death in 1941 was natural or whether the ruined large businessman died by suicide is not clearly answered in the relevant literature.

literature

• Francesco Amendolagine (Ed.): Molino Stucky. Ricerche storiche e ipotesi di restauro. Il cardo, Venice 1995, ISBN 88-8079-050-1 .
• Lavinia Cavalletti: La dinastia Stucky, 1841-1941. Storia del molino di Venezia e della famiglia. Since Manin a Mussolini. Studio LT2, Venezia 2011, ISBN 978-88-88028-68-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This is how a Swiss became the richest Venetian : "Giancarlo's last hope for the damage suffered during the war - three of his properties, but not the factory, had been destroyed - was to be compensated by the Italian state. But that never happened, because the payments were reserved for Italians. Like his father and grandfather, he had always remained Swiss. "
2. ↑ Cavalletti: La dinastia Stucky, 1841-1941. 2011, p. 216.
3. ↑ See: Stenio Solinas: Molino Stucky. Il castello sulla Laguna. In: Il Giornale , July 22, 2007.

Web links

• Helmut Stalder: The miller of Venice. In: Observer . No. 24, 2010.