Giuseppe Romita

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Giuseppe Romita (born January 7, 1887 in Tortona , Alessandria province ; † March 15, 1958 in Rome ) was an Italian politician of the Partito Socialista Italiano PSI, the Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria (PSIUP), the Partito Socialista Unitario (PSU) and later the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI), which was both a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) . He was minister in various governments several times, including minister of the interior from 1945 to 1946 , and chairman of the PSDI in 1952.

Life

Giuseppe Romita completed a degree in engineering and then worked as an engineer. He became a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) for the first time in the Kingdom of Italy on December 1, 1919, and was a member of it until November 9, 1926. He was arrested several times during the fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini . In 1942 he replaced Giuseppe Saragat , Oddino Morgari and Angelo Tasca as secretary of the Partito Socialista Italiano PSI and held this position for a year until he was replaced by Pietro Nenni in 1943.

After the end of the Second World War Romita took over the office of Minister for Public Works (Ministro dei Lavori Pubblici) for the first time in the Parri cabinet from June 21, 1945 to December 8, 1945 . In the following cabinet, De Gasperi I , he took over the office of Minister of the Interior (Ministro dell'Interno) on December 10, 1945 and held this office until July 13, 1946. During his tenure, the intelligence service SIS ( Servizio Informazioni Speciali ) was founded in the Ministry of the Interior , in which mostly former employees of the secret police organization for the surveillance and fight against anti-fascism OVRA ( Organizzazione di Vigilanza e Repressione dell'Antifascismo ) worked. In the elections of June 2, 1946 , he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly ( Assemblea Costituente ) in the constituency of Cuneo and was a member of this until January 31, 1948. In the De Gasperi II cabinet he held the post of Minister for Public Works again between July 13, 1946 and February 2, 1947 and took over the post of De Gasperi III cabinet from February 2 to May 31, 1947 in the following cabinet Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (Ministro del Lavoro e della Previdenza sociale) .

In the elections of April 18, 1948 , Giuseppe Romita was elected a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) , of which he was a member until June 24, 1953. At the end of 1949 he left the PSI and initially formed the Movimento Socialista Autonomista MSA, but soon afterwards in December 1949 with the politicians Giuseppe Faravelli , Ugo Guido Mondolfo and Mario Zagari , who had left the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani PSLI , the Partito Socialista Unitario (PSU ) merged. On May 1, 1950, this party merged with the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSLI) and took the name Partito Socialista – Sezione Italiana dell'Internazionale Socialista (PS-SIIS), which on January 7, 1952, changed to Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano ( PSDI) has been modified. In March 1952 he replaced Ezio Vigorelli as chairman of the PSDI (Segretari) and held this function until October 1952, when Giuseppe Saragat succeeded him.

Romita was re- elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the elections of June 7, 1953 for the PSDI in the constituency of Cuneo, to which he belonged until his death on March 15, 1958. On February 10, 1954, he again took over the post of Minister for Public Works in the Scelba cabinet , which he held between July 6, 1955 and May 19, 1957 in the subsequent Segni I cabinet .

His son was the politician Pier Luigi Romita , who was also a member of the Chamber of Deputies, minister several times and between 1976 and 1978 also chairman of the PSDI.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Governo Parri
  2. ^ Governo De Gasperi
  3. ^ Governo De Gasperi II
  4. ^ Governo De Gasperi III
  5. ^ Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano
  6. ^ Governo Scelba
  7. ^ Governo Segni
personal data
SURNAME Romita, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Tortona , Alessandria Province
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1958
Place of death Rome