Ferruccio Parri

Ferruccio Parri

Ferruccio Parri (born January 19, 1890 in Pinerolo , † December 8, 1981 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and, nicknamed Maurizio , a partisan leader during the war of liberation from the fascist regime in Italy and President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister).

Parris burial site in Genoa

Life

After his doctorate in Italian studies he participated in the First World War, in part, supported in the following years as a staunch anti-fascist various resistance groups and was involved in the actions of free social group Giustizia e Libertà , an association that is different from the brothers Carlo and Nello Rosselli took inspiration involved . Because he had encouraged Filippo Turati to emigrate and because of his anti-fascism, he served many years in prison. During the Resistance's War of Liberation 1943-45, he changed his name to Maurizio and became a resistance leader of the Partito d'Azione , which he had co-founded. In the most problematic phases of the resistance, he headed the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale per l'Alta Italia (National Committee for the Liberation of Northern Italy) - (CLNAI) and coordinated the United Partisan High Command or Corpo Volontari della Libertà .

After the liberation Parri became Prime Minister (from April 26, 1945 to November 24 of the same year) of a national unity government consisting of communists , azionists , Christian democrats , demolaburists (members of the Partito Democratico del Lavoro ), socialists and liberals ; when the latter withdrew their political support, he resigned from office.

In the second post-war period he became secretary of the Partito d'Azione, but after the fall of this party in the political elections of 1946 , in which he could not win more than 1.5% of the vote, he left it to join Ugo La Malfa co-founded the Concentrazione Democratica movement. In 1948 this was incorporated into the Partito Repubblicano Italiano . In 1953, according to the Legge truffa , he left the PRI and founded the Unità popolare with the social democrat Piero Calamandrei , who was instrumental in repealing the new electoral law.

President Giuseppe Saragat appointed him senatore a vita ( senator for life ) in 1963 : he was part of the Sinistra Indipendente group , which he chaired for a long time.

literature

• Luca Polese Remaggi:  Parri, Ferruccio. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 81:  Pansini – Pazienza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.

Web links

• Entry on Ferruccio Parri on senato.it: I Legsilatura 1948–1953
• Publications by and about Ferruccio Parri in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
• Standard entry about Ferruccio Parri at the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale