Mario Scelba

Mario Scelba (1947)

Mario Scelba ( Italian pronoun ^{? / I} ) (born September 5, 1901 in Caltagirone , † October 29, 1991 in Rome ) was Prime Minister of Italy from February 10, 1954 to June 22, 1955 and President of the European Parliament from 1969 to 1971.

education

Mario Scelba studied law in Rome. In 1921 he joined the Catholic PPI of Luigi Sturzo one. Among other things, he was party secretary there. After the party was banned in 1926, he worked as a lawyer.

politics

Since the beginning of the Second World War , Scelba was in contact with Alcide De Gasperi and Giovanni Gronchi in an exchange of views on the re-establishment of an Italian people's party. In June 1944 he became a member of the Democrazia Cristiana , elected to the National Council in 1945. Scelba was the country's interior minister several times , including from 1947 to 1952, from 1952 to 1953, from 1954 to 1955 and again from 1960 to 1962. From 1954 to 1955 he was Prime Minister of Italy. He later became a senator .

literature

• Elena Aga-Rossi - Victor Zaslavsky , Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca , Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007
• Pier Luigi Ballini, Mario Scelba. Contributi per una biografia , Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2006
• Nico Perrone , De Gasperi e l'America , Palermo, Sellerio, 1995, ISBN 8-83891-110-X

Web links

Commons : Mario Scelba  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mario Scelba in the catalog of the German National Library