Lodovico Benvenuti

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Lodovico Benvenuti

Lodovico Sforza Benvenuti (born April 10, 1899 in Verona , province of Verona , † May 27, 1976 in Casorate Sempione , province of Varese ) was an Italian politician of the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), who was among other things Secretary General of the Council of Europe between 1957 and 1964 .

Life

Lawyer, resistance fighter and member of parliament

After attending school, Benvenuti studied law and then worked as a lawyer . He began his political career in the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) founded by Luigi Sturzo in 1919 , to which he belonged until 1926. At this time he withdrew from political life with the beginning of the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini , before he later became involved in the resistance movement against fascism in the province of Cremona .

After the end of the Second World War he was elected in the election of June 2, 1946 as a representative of the Democrazia Cristiana member of the Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente) and in the election of April 18, 1948 as a member of the Chamber of Deputati ( Camera dei deputati ) . After his re-election in the elections from June 7, 1953 to October 1, 1957, he was a member and represented the constituency of Mantua . Even as a member of parliament he was a staunch supporter of the European community and in August 1949 he stated that Europe could only be a Third Force in one sense - namely as a united Third Force within the Western Hemisphere, side by side with the British Commonwealth of Nations and the USA .

During his parliamentary membership, he was a member of the electoral committee (Giunta delle elezioni) from May 1948 to July 1951 and at the same time a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, External Economic Relations and Colonies (Commissione rapporti con l'estero, compresi gli economici - colonie ) between June 1948 and June 1953 ) and from January 1950 to July 1951 member of the Agriculture, Forestry and Supply Committee (Commissione agricoltura e foreste - alimentazione) . He was also a member of the working group for trade agreements and customs law between February 1950 and July 1951.

Undersecretary of State and Secretary General of the Council of Europe

In the seventh government of Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi , Benvenuti took over the post of Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Sottosegretario di Stato al Commercio con l'Estero) on July 27, 1951, and held this position until he was in the eighth on July 17, 1953 Government De Gasperis Undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sottosegretario di Stato agli Affari Esteri) was. He held this government office until the end of De Gasperi's tenure on August 17, 1953.

In the governments of Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani and Mario Scelba , he acted again from January 19, 1954 to July 6, 1955 as Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Ministry. In this function he also represented Italy at the Council of Ministers of the Western European Union (WEU). In addition, in July 1955 he was head of a negotiating delegation in Brussels and as such placed particular emphasis on a European investment fund, which was to be responsible for promoting underdeveloped areas of the European Community .

In addition to his mandate in the Camera dei Deputati, Benvenuti was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from May 7, 1954 to October 1, 1957 and was again a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, External Economic Relations and Colonies of the Chamber of Deputies between July 1955 and October 1957.

On September 15, 1957, Benvenuti succeeded Léon Marchal, who had died in office, as Secretary General of the Council of Europe and held this office for seven years until he was replaced by Peter Smithers on March 15, 1964.

In 1960, along with Konrad Adenauer and Walter Hallstein, he was one of the key speakers at the commemoration of the Central Association of Democratic Resistance Fighters and Organizations of the Persecuted (ZDWV) for the attack on July 20, 1944 .

Publications

  • European federation and the Atlantic treaty , March 16, 1949. In:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Trunk: Europe, a way out: Political elites and European identity in the 1950s , p. 232, ISBN 3-48658-187-2 , 2007
  2. ↑ Ralph Dietl: Emancipation and Control: Europe in Western Security Policy 1948-1963. An interior view of the western alliance , Volume 1 (Der Ordnungsffekt Europa 1948-1958), p. 310, ISBN 3-51508-915-2 , 2006
  3. ↑ Guido Thiemeyer: From "Pool Vert" to the European Economic Community: European Integration, Cold War and the Beginnings of the Common European Agricultural Policy 1950-1957 , Dissertation, University of Cologne, p. 170, ISBN 3-48656-427-7 , 1999
  4. ^ Mathieu LL Segers: Germany's wrestling with the Relance: the European policy of the FRG during the deliberations and negotiations of the Rome Treaties , p. 153, ISBN 3-63157-105-4 , 2008
  5. ^ Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Heinrich Klebes: Council of Europe Law: Towards a Pan-European Legal Area . P. 72, ISBN 9-28715-594-1 , 2005
  6. ^ Klaus Brummer: The Council of Europe: An Introduction , p. 126, ISBN 3-53115-710-8 , 2008
  7. ^ Rüdiger von Voss: The coup d'état of July 20, 1944: political reception and tradition formation in the Federal Republic of Germany , p. 142, ISBN 3-86732-097-7 , 2011
  8. ^ Walter Lipgens, Wilfried Loth (editor): Documents on the History of European Integration: The struggle for European Union for Political Parties and Pressure Groups in Western European Countries 1945-1950 , p. 232, ISBN 3-11011-429-1 , 1988
personal data
SURNAME Benvenuti, Lodovico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benvenuti, Lodovico Sforza (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, member of the Camera, first Secretary General of the Council of Europe
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona , Province of Verona
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1976
Place of death Casorate Sempione , Varese Province