Giuseppe Cattori

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Giuseppe Cattori monument from 1939 in Muralto

Giuseppe Cattori (born May 24, 1866 in Sonogno , † July 18, 1932 in Muralto ) was a Swiss politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). He was a Ticino State Councilor and a member of the Swiss National Council .

biography

Cattori came from a farming family. He attended the secondary schools S. Eugenio in Locarno and Saint-Michel in Freiburg . He completed his law studies at the University of Bern in 1889 . In 1889 he was president of the Lepontia student association and in 1892 of the Swiss student association . Cattori completed a legal internship with Gioachimo Respini , the leader of the Ticino Conservatives. From 1893 to 1909 he worked as a lawyer and notary.

Cattori was a member of the Ticino Constitutional Council in 1892 and was from 1893 to 1920 for the conservatives in the Ticino Grand Council, the cantonal parliament . In 1896 the Ticino conservatives split into the moderate Giubiaschesi and the unyielding Respiniani . Cattori was one of the latter and became editor of their organ La Libertà . After the party had reunited in 1901, he and Eligio Pometta became editor of the new party newspaper Popolo e Libertà . Later he was director of this newspaper - with interruptions - for almost 20 years.

Together with Giuseppe Motta, Cattori was one of the most important exponents of the Ticino right. In 1909 he was elected to the Ticino cantonal government , the State Council. There he headed the building department from 1909 to 1912. In 1912 he replaced Giuseppe Motta in the Swiss National Council . He remained a member of the National Council until 1915 and held this office again from 1917 to 1919. In the meantime, from 1915 to 1917, Cattori was again Ticino State Councilor and headed the Interior and Justice Department, then from 1921 until his death in 1932 he headed the Education, Justice and Police Department.

reception

In Muralto there is a monument in honor of Giuseppe Cattori on the Lungolago Giuseppe Motta promenade . It was created in 1939 by the sculptor Fiorenzo Abbondio . A bronze statue stands on a granite plinth, it shows Giuseppe Cattori, larger than life, giving a speech. Different people can be seen in the base (e.g. Mario Martinoni ) listening to him or talking about his speech.

Both in Muralto (Viale Giuseppe Cattori) and in Locarno (Via Giuseppe Cattori) streets are named after him.

Works

  • Ore d'Italia. Grassi & Co., Lugano 1917. New edition by Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Zurich 1988.

literature

  • Fabrizio Panzera: Giuseppe Cattori. In: Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, pp. 18, 65-70.
  • Fabrizio Panzera: Giuseppe Cattori. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 12, 2005 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
  • Partito Conservatore-Democratico: In memoria di Giuseppe Cattori. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1933.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Wigger: The Swiss Conservative People's Party 1903-1918: Politics between culture war and class war. Saint-Paul, 1997, p. 117. Online at Google Books
  2. ^ Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , pp. 170-173.
  3. ↑ Giuseppe Cattori - Muralto, TI, Switzerland , entry on waymarking.com
  4. ↑ Viale Giuseppe Cattori on map.search.ch
  5. ↑ Via Giuseppe Cattori, Locarno on map of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Cattori, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CIP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonogno
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1932
Place of death Muralto