Michele Bianchi

Michele Bianchi

Michele Bianchi (born July 22, 1883 in Belmonte Calabro , † February 3, 1930 in Rome ) was an Italian journalist and politician of fascism .

Career

Bianchi attended the Lyceum in Cosenza and then completed a law degree in Rome . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a journalist and became editor of the party newspaper of the Partito Socialista Italiano Avanti! under the editor-in-chief Arturo Labriola . In 1905 he left the editorial office and devoted himself to editing the Gioventù socialista , the body of young socialists. His anti-militarist campaign in this newspaper first put him in prison and resulted in his deportation to Genoa . Here he became head of the local Chamber of Labor of the Revolutionary Workers and editor of the local party newspaper Lotta socialista . In 1906, after some labor disputes, he presented his plan for a non-violent solution to work problems, which was only partially received positively by the party leadership. This was followed by eventful years as the editor of the La Scintilla and La Battaglia gazettes , a work that earned him several stays in prison. His resistance to the Italo-Turkish War also earned him a prison term.

In Milan he became one of the main exponents of the local trade union movement. In the struggle for Italy to enter the war, he worked closely with Benito Mussolini . He took part in the war as a volunteer and became a non-commissioned officer. Bianchi was involved in the founding of the Fasci di Combattimento as well as in the founding of the actual Partito Nazionale Fascista , of which he became national secretary in 1921. As such, he made particular efforts to establish an alliance with the left, against which, however, numerous actions were carried out. After the successful suppression of the general strike of February 1922, he prepared the march on Rome as one of the four quadrum viruses ( italo Balbo , Cesare Maria De Vecchi and Emilio De Bono also belong to this body ) .

After taking over the business of government, the party secretary of the national fascist party also became general secretary in the Interior Ministry on November 4, 1922. In the same month of that year, through an interview published in the magazine Il Popolo d'Italia , he brought the conversation to the introduction of majority voting, according to which two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies should be assigned to the majority list; the remaining seats should be allocated to the remaining lists on the basis of proportionality. That was the starting signal for a serious change in the electoral law in 1923, which became known under the name Legge Acerbo . In the spring of 1923, a commission appointed by the Grand Fascist Council (Gran Consiglio del Fascismo) - to which both Michele Bianchi and Roberto Farinacci belong - confirmed by a large majority an electoral law project that corresponded to Bianchi's proposals. In 1924 he was appointed to the Fascist Grand Council. In 1925 he was given the post of secretary in the Ministry of Public Works to become Minister of Public Works in September 1929. However, he was no longer able to exercise his parliamentary mandate, which was reassigned to him: he died at the age of 46.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Michele Bianchi in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chapter 1 of the book by Alessandro Visani La conquista della maggioranza / Mussolini, il PNF e le elezioni del 1924 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.