Piero Puricelli

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Historical course of the Autostrada dei Laghi 1926

Piero Puricelli (born April 4, 1883 in Milan , † May 8, 1951 ibid) was an Italian civil engineer and senator of the kingdom .

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In the 1920s he developed in Italy with the Autostrada dei Laghi a "autostrada", a road for cars, from Milan to the Italian lakes and therefore the first "highway" is considered by experts as the builder of the world after the HaFraBa to at this point in time was still in the planning phase.

The first section to Gallarate was on September 20, 1923 in the presence of King Victor Emanuel III. and the extension to Varese opened a year later on September 21, 1924. The crossing-free expansion and a structural separation of the directional lanes took place later.

Because the National Socialists wanted to propagate the Autobahn as Hitler's idea with Fritz Todt , the Inspector General for Roads, Puricelli, himself a close follower of Benito Mussolini , was prevented by massive pressure in the 1930s from continuing to declare the Autobahn as his idea and to turn a good face into a bad game. For example, a manuscript about motorways previously published by a Kurt Gustav Kaftan was jointly suppressed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Piero Puricelli on the website of the Italian Senate (in Italian), accessed on November 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Road map in the Federal Archives ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
  3. ↑ Document from the Federal Archives of October 15, 1937 on the concept and meaning of motorways in Europe ( Memento of the original of November 11, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
  4. ↑ Correspondence in the Federal Archives ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (a total of 9 pages) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesarchiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Puricelli, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian civil engineer and senator
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1951
Place of death Milan