Piero Malvestiti

Piero Malvestiti (1959)

Piero Malvestiti (born June 26, 1899 in Apiro , Macerata province , † November 5, 1964 in Milan ) was an Italian politician . He held various ministerial offices in the Italian government and was Commissioner of the European Economic Community and President of the European Coal and Steel Community .

Political party

He was one of the founders of the Italian Christian Democratic Party in 1942 when he merged his Movimento Guelfo d'Azione with the Italian People's Party.

Italian government

On 25 October 1947 he was undersecretary of the Treasury of the fourth Italian government of Alcide De Gasperi to 1948. Then he was in the fifth and sixth government of De Gasperi undersecretary at the Treasury until 1951. From 1948 to 1958 he belonged to the Camera dei deputati to .

From 1951 to 1953 he was Minister of Transport in the Alcide De Gasperi government and Minister of Industry and Trade in the Giuseppe Pella government from 1953 to 1954.

EEC / ECSC

In January 1958 he became one of the Italian members of the EEC Hallstein Commission. His main area of ​​responsibility was the internal market . He was also a member of the working groups in the main areas of responsibility for economics and finance and transport . He was also vice president. In September 1959 he resigned from this office. He was succeeded by Giuseppe Caron because Malvestiti became President of the European Coal and Steel Community in the Malvestiti Commission . He was president until November 1963.

There is a street in Milan called Via Piero Malvestiti.

literature

• Mauro Cerutti: Piero Malvestiti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 1, 2007 , accessed December 11, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Piero Malvestiti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Piero Malvestiti on treccani.it/enciclopedia/piero-malvestiti/