Guglielmo Canevascini

Guglielmo Canevascini (born May 2, 1886 in Tenero-Contra , † July 20, 1965 in Lugano ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ). He was a Ticino Grand Councilor , State Councilor and Swiss National Councilor .

Life

Guglielmo Canevascini was born to the farmer Ferdinando, a staunch liberal, and Giovannina Piantoni. He was self-taught and initially worked on his father's farm. At the age of 19 he emigrated to French- speaking Switzerland and later to France. In 1904 he joined the Socialist Party of Canton Ticino and worked for the daily newspaper L'Aurora , after which he was secretary of the Chamber of Labor from 1907 to 1922. The revolutionary trade unionist Giulio Barni influenced Canevascini's political consciousness. In 1913 Canevascini caused the party to split and founded the daily Libera Stampa , which he headed until 1922. After the reunification of the party in 1917, he was the undisputed leader of the Ticino socialists.

In June 1918 he led the general strike in Lugano . 1913–1917, 1921–1922 and again at the end of his political career 1959–1963 he was a member of the Grand Council and from 1919 to 1922 a National Councilor. From 1922 to 1959 he was the first socialist state councilor in Ticino. In 1940 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor .

Canevascini, known as padreterno (God the Father), organized the fight against fascism in Ticino and also helped found groups that worked in secret, such as the storm troops of the Liberi e Svizzeri . He was one of the founding fathers of Radio Monte Ceneri , which was to become a voice of freedom and anti-fascism.

Works

• La crisi socialista nel cantone Ticino. Nuova biblioteca rossa, Lugano 1913.
• with Giulio Barni: L'industria del granito e lo sviluppo economico del cantone Ticino. Nuova biblioteca rossa, Lugano 1913.
• I liberali contro il liberalesimo. 1923.
• Il lavoro umano attraverso i secoli. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Lugano 1942.
• Il villaggio modello: la storia di Pietro, Paolo e compagni. IET, Lugano 1943.
• Aldo Patocchi (Ed.): Problemi sociali del dopoguerra. Ghilda del Libro, Lugano 1945.

literature

• Danilo Baratti (Ed.): Autobiografia. Fondazione Pellegrini-Canevascini, Lugano 1986.
• Pasquale Genasci: Il Partito socialista nel Ticino degli anni '40. Fondazione Pellegrini-Canevascini, Lugano 1985.
• Guido Pedroli : Il socialismo nella Svizzera italiana (1880-1922). Edizioni Alternative, Bellinzona 1976.
• Gabriele Rossi: Guglielmo Canevascini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 28, 2003. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
• Nelly Valsangiacomo Comolli: Storia di un leader. Fondazione Pellegrini-Canevascini, Lugano 2001.
• Sonia Castro, Al di sopra di ogni frontiera. Carteggio Guglielmo Canevascini - Egidio Reale 1927-1957 , Lugano 2016.

Web links

• Al di sopra di ogni frontiera: carteggio 1927–1957 on Google Books (Italian)
• Dedicato a Guglielmo Canevascini: una prima, generica sistemazione dell'opera del nostro maggior protagonista politico on Google Books (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Patrice Vuilleumier: Giulio Barni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 26, 2002 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
2. ↑ Guglielmo Canevascini Nationalrat on parlament.ch/de/biografie
3. ^ Fabrizio Panzera: Enrico Celio . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 367 .
4. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Guglielmo Canevascini. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2, Brusino - Caux, Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 486.