Lando Ferretti

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Lando Ferretti

Lando Ferretti (born May 2, 1895 in Pontedera , † January 8, 1977 in Rome ) was a politician, journalist and sports official since Italian fascism .

Life

After successfully completing high school in Pisa, Ferretti graduated from the Scuola Normale in Pisa as the best of his year (degree as a primary school teacher and university entrance qualification), was sent to Modena to the military academy (degree as a lieutenant), took part in the World War as a squadron leader of the infantry and got high decorated, wounded in the battles of Carso and Adamello . During the war he made his diploma in literary studies as a war disabled at the University of Pisa (thesis: Carducci and English literature ) and also completed (1929–1931) his law studies at the University of Pavia (thesis: The genesis of the city constitutions of Pisa ). At the age of 17, he was the founding president of the US Città di Pontedera in 1912. From 1919 to 1924 he was editor for motorsport at La Gazzetta dello Sport . After the war, he also worked in the military administration of Trentino, which had recently come to Italy . From 1924 to 1926 he was editor of Il Secolo XIX and finally from 1927 to 1928 editor of Corriere della Sera . He had participated as an officer in the March on Rome and thus had the status of an old fighter and became the inspector general of the Balilla and the party militia.

From 1924 to 1939 he was a member of the Italian Parliament on the list of Italian Fascists , and from 1925 to 1928 President of the National Olympic Committee ( CONI ). Due to Italy's great successes at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he became Mussolini's press secretary and member of the board of the National Fascist Party . He expanded the press office into the function of a propaganda ministry and consequently enforced press censorship , since he not only brought the big papers into line, but also the provincial press . He became the Honorary President of Inter Milan and President of the Viareggio Literature Festival . He portrayed Mussolini as the most important athlete in Italy and glorified the male body as a peculiarity of fascism .

In 1939 he lost all offices because he had publicly spoken out against Italy's entry on the side of Nazi Germany in World War II and protested against Italy's anti-Semitic legislation. He fought as a colonel on the front against France and eventually became the commanding general of the 5th Army. Because of his bravery, he was ennobled and given the title of Count of Val d'Era. Most recently he worked for the Italian Social Republic . After the Second World War he worked again as a journalist for Popolo di Roma and Popolo italiano . He was one of the founding members of the Movimento Sociale Italiano , on the list of which he belonged to the Italian Senate from 1953 to 1968 , which sent him to the parliamentary control commission for the RAI in all three legislative terms. From 1953 to 1960 he was a member of the organizing committee of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He was also President of Panathlon in Italy. From 1959 to 1969 he was also a member of the European Parliament .

Works

Appunti sulla genesi dei Costituti pisani , 1929

Honors

literature

Web links

  • Entry in the Portal Storico of the Camera dei Deputati

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The Influence of the Fascist Sports Model of Italy on National Socialist Sports. In: Morgen A. Olsen (Ed.): Sport and Politics. 1918-1939 / 40. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1986, pp. 226-232; Arnd Krüger: Sport in Fascist Italy (1922-1933). In: Giselher Spitzer , Dieter Schmidt (Hrsg.): Sport between independence and external determination. Festschrift for Hajo Bernett. P. Wegener, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-921285-50-X , pp. 213-226.
  2. ↑ Simon Martin: Sport Italia. The Italian Love Affair with Sport. IB Tauris, London et al. 2011, ISBN 978-1-84511-820-4 .
  3. ^ Ray Moseley: Mussolini. The last 600 days of il Duce. Taylor Trade, Dallas TX et al. 2004, ISBN 1-58979-095-2 .
  4. ↑ Fausto Pettinelli, Giampaolo Grassi: Lando Ferretti, il giornalista di Mussolini (= . Frammenti di storia locale 5, ZDB -ID 2732619-6 ). Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Ferretti, Lando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lando Ferretti, Count of Val d'Era
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fascist politician, member of the Camera dei deputati, member of the European Parliament, President of the National Olympic Committee of Italy
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontedera
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1977
Place of death Rome