Giuseppe Saragat

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Giuseppe Saragat

Giuseppe Saragat (common pronunciation: [ʤuˈzɛppe ˈsaːraɡat] ? / i , correct pronunciation: [ʤuˈzɛppe sara'ɡa:t] ; born September 19, 1898 in Turin - June 11, 1988 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and from 1964 to 1971 the fifth President of the Republic of Italy.

Life

Giuseppe Saragat (right) in 1979 with Sandro Pertini

Saragat was the son of a Sardinian family from Spain . His father was born in Sassari . Saragat studied until 1920. In 1922 he joined the United Socialist Party (PSU). During the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini , Saragat lived in exile in Austria , France and Switzerland from 1926 to 1943 , in close contact with Pietro Nenni .

In 1943 he returned to Italy, joined the Resistenza against the Republic of Salò , fell into German captivity from which he was able to escape and went to Milan , where he re-established the PSI with others . He was a minister without portfolio in the Bonomi cabinet before becoming his country's ambassador in Paris from 1945 to 1946 . In 1946 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly , of which he was President until 1947.

When Alcide De Gasperi renounced his unity of action with the socialists and communists, the right wing left the party under Saragat's leadership in 1947 and formed the Italian Socialist Workers' Party (PSLI) to continue participating in government. From 1949 to 1951 Saragat was general secretary of this party, which became the Social Democratic Party of Italy (PSDI) in 1951/52 when it merged with Giuseppe Romita 's United Socialist Party (PSU). Saragat was actively involved in its establishment.

In the 1948 elections he joined his new party against the PCI 's Popular Front alliance with the PSI and formed an alliance with the Democrazia Cristiana , for which he was vilified on the left as a "social fascist" and "renegade". In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies , his party received 7% in the Senate 4.1%, which made him 1947-1949 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs in the De Gasperi cabinet. As a convinced reformist and Atlanticist, he campaigned for Italy's accession to NATO and the Marshall Plan . From 1954 to 1957 he was again a member of the Italian government as Deputy Prime Minister. From 1963 to 1964 he was Foreign Minister of his country.

On December 28, 1964 he was awarded the votes i.a. elected President of the Socialists and Communists. He held this post until 1971, after which he became an ex officio senator for life. In March 1976 he again took up the post of Secretary General of the PSDI, from which he had already resigned in June 1976 due to his party's electoral defeat. From then on he served as party president.

Giuseppe Saragat made the following official trips abroad as President:

literature

  • Giuseppe Saragat , in: International Biographical Archive 30/1988 of July 18, 1988, in the Munzinger Archive ( start of article freely available)

web links

Commons : Giuseppe Saragat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ https://www.lanuovasardegna.it/tempo-libero/2018/11/10/news/saragat-creazione-di-un-tempiese-che-taglio-il-tu-1.17450391
  2. ↑ List of trips on archivio.quirinale.it
predecessor government office successor
Gino Buti Italian Ambassador to France
1945–1946 		Pietro Quaroni
personal data
SURNAME Saragat, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
BIRTH DATE September 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1988
PLACE OF DEATH Rome