Piero Sacerdoti

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Piero Sacerdoti (born December 6, 1905 in Milan ; died December 30, 1966 in St. Moritz ) was an Italian lawyer , long-time managing director of the Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà and professor of labor law at Università degli Studi di Milano .

Life

Piero Sacerdoti

Piero Sacerdoti was born in Milan in 1905 as the son of the engineer Nino Sacerdoti and Margherita Donati, who came from an influential, extensive Jewish merchant family in Modena .

After graduating from Liceo Parini in Milan, he began studying law at the University of Milan . In 1927 he received his doctorate in administrative law on the subject of The Trade Union Federation in Italian Law . In September 1927 he completed a three-month internship at Commerzbank in Berlin . It was here that he began his long-time correspondent activity for the Italian business newspaper Il Sole . He conducted interviews with German industrialists and politicians, u. a. with the former German Economics Minister August Müller . In 1928 he obtained a second degree in political science from the University of Pavia . After returning from Berlin, he was offered a position in the London office of the insurance company Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà (RAS), one of the largest Italian insurance companies founded in Trieste in 1838 . In 1929 he was admitted to the bar . In addition to his professional activity, he worked as a private lecturer in labor law and regularly published legal and labor law articles and essays.

In 1933 Piero Sacerdoti went on a study trip to the world exhibition A Century of Progress in Chicago. Sacerdoti sent articles from Chicago dealing with Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic reforms . In the same year he was transferred to Assicuratrice Italiana , the accident and liability subsidiary of RAS. His tasks included the establishment and support of the branches in Belgium, France, Switzerland and Spain. In 1936 he was appointed director of accident and life insurance (Protectrice ) at RAS in Paris.

After the occupation of the French capital by the Wehrmacht in World War II , the headquarters of Protectrice were relocated to Marseille under the direction of Sacerdoti . Due to the division of France, Sacerdoti was initially only able to work in the unoccupied zone in southern France and North Africa; it was not until the autumn of 1940 that he received a special permit with which he could also undertake short business trips to the occupied zone of France.

As an Italian citizen, Piero Sacerdoti was protected from the reprisals of anti-Jewish measures and the access of the Vichy authorities . After the occupation of southern France by the Wehrmacht in November 1942, Sacerdoti and his German wife Ilse Klein fled to Nice , which was in the Italian-occupied zone in southern France until September 1943. Together with his mother's cousin, the banker Angelo Donati , he helped organize the flight of Jewish emigrants to Switzerland and Italy. Together with his wife and Angelo Donati, he helped hide the children Marianne and Rolf Spier in August 1942, whose parents Karl Ludwig and Hilde Spier - relatives of Sacerdoti's wife - were deported to Auschwitz .

In the summer of 1943, Sacerdoti and his wife received permission to visit his family in Italy. On September 3, 1943, Italy withdrew from the war after the armistice of Cassibile and the Germans occupied the Italian zone in France and Italy, so that the Sacerdoti family feared arrest and deportation . With the help of friends, they managed to escape to Switzerland on November 20, 1943 . In Geneva , Piero Sacerdoti continued his work for Protectrice and gave courses in administrative law at the University of Geneva for Italian refugee students together with Luigi Einaudi , Amintore Fanfani and Donato Donati .

After the end of the Second World War he returned to Paris and began to successfully rebuild Protectrice in France. In North Africa he founded the companies L'Empire and Vigilance in Casablanca . In 1947 he was appointed managing director and in 1949 general director of the Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà (RAS).

Piero Sacerdoti introduced numerous new insurance elements in the company: from global policies to group life insurance for employees of a company to hail insurance for lemon groves. In 1953 he was one of the initiators of the European Insurance Committee (CEA).

In 1954 he was appointed to the Chair of Labor Law at the University of Milan, which he had to give up in 1964 due to his numerous professional obligations. Since 1957, as part of his work, he has been investigating the risk that third parties run in the peaceful use of nuclear energy , and in 1959 he launched the first Italian insurance against nuclear damage, which insured, among other things, the experimental nuclear reactor installed at the University of Cagliari . He was committed to the introduction of information technology and electronic data processing in the insurance industry.

In 1960 he took part in various activities of the European Organization for Security and Economic Cooperation (later OECD) in the field of internationalization of the insurance industry, with the aim of compensating for legal differences between the various European countries. In 1963, Sacerdoti took over the international business of the RAS Group and opened numerous new branch offices worldwide.

In the course of his work, Piero Sacerdoti published numerous works on insurance law issues and published an extensive study on the subject of A Century of Insurance in the Italian Economy (1865-1965) .

Piero Sacerdoti died at the age of 61 on December 30, 1966 of a heart attack in St. Moritz. He was buried in the main cemetery in Milan with great sympathy from numerous representatives of the domestic and foreign insurance industry as well as Italian politicians. After his death in 1984 shares in RAS were acquired by Allianz insurance . After the merger of RAS with Allianz in 2006, the existence of one of the largest Italian insurance companies ended after more than 150 years.

family

Piero Sacerdoti was the only son of Nino Sacerdoti and Margherita Donati. The couple had two daughters: Luisa (1903–1979) and Gabriella (1910–1994). In 1938 Piero Sacerdoti met Ilse Klein (1913–2001) from Cologne in Paris. Ilse Klein was the eldest daughter of the Jewish lawyer Siegmund Klein, who worked as a lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court . After Ilse Klein was denied access to studies after the National Socialists came to power , she went to Paris in October 1933, where she worked as a foreign language secretary for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1935 . Shortly before the Wehrmacht marched into Paris, Ilse Klein was arrested by French authorities in 1940, like most German emigrants, and interned first in the Vélodrom d'Hiver and later in the Gurs camp in the Pyrenees . After France was divided into an occupied and unoccupied zone on June 22, 1940, she was released from Gurs and initially settled in Marseille with Piero Sacerdoti. They married on August 14, 1940 and Ilse Sacerdoti received Italian citizenship with the marriage .

Use's brother Walter and her parents emigrated to the Netherlands in August 1938 and February 1939, respectively . After the occupation of the Netherlands, the Jewish emigrants in Amsterdam were increasingly exposed to reprisals . Walter Klein was arrested in Dole in April 1942 while attempting to illegally go to Marseille to his sister Ilse and imprisoned in Fort d'Hauteville. On August 13, 1942 he was on the Camp de Pithiviers in the Drancy transit camp transferred. Walter Klein was deported from Drancy on August 26, 1942 on the 24th transport to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Ilse Klein's parents did not survive the Holocaust either: their mother Helene died on January 15, 1943 in Amersfoort . Siegmund Klein's hiding place was betrayed on October 16, 1943. He was imprisoned in the Hollandsche Shouwburg and deported eight days later to the Westerbork transit camp , from where he was deported to Auschwitz on November 16, 1943.

After Italy was occupied by the Wehrmacht in September 1943 and the Jewish population was arrested and deported here too, Ilse and Piero Sacerdoti hid above Stresa and Viggiu . On November 20, 1943, they managed to escape to Switzerland . The couple has four sons (Giorgio born in 1943 in Nice, Emilio and Andrea born in 1946 in Paris, Michele born in 1950 in Milan); a girl Beatrice died shortly after birth in Geneva in 1945.

Honors and commemorations (selection)

His social work has been recognized in Italy and France with numerous high state awards, including a .:

Works (selection)

  • L'associazione sindacale nel diritto italiano , Rome, 1928
  • Le associazioni sindacali nel diritto pubblico germanico , Padova, 1931
  • Le Corporatisme et le regime de la production et du travail en Italie , Paris, 1938
  • Il cittadino e lo stato , corso di diritto amministrativo tenuto a Ginevra nel 1944
  • Le assicurazioni private nella regione Lombardia , Cariplo, 1954
  • La responsabilità civile per danni a terzi nell'utilizzazione pacifica dell'energia nucleare , Piacenza, 1958
  • L'atomo e il diritto , 1958
  • Il nostro programma per gli anni '60 , Convegno degli Agenti Ras, Milan, 1962
  • La Compagnia dei 5 Continenti , 1963
  • Previdenza sociale e promozione del risparmio nell'economia moderna , Milan, 1964
  • Insurance in the Common Market , International Center for Research and Documentation on the European Communities, Milan, 1966

literature

  • Giandomenico Piluso:  Sacerdoti, Piero. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 89:  Rovereto – Salvemini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2017.
  • Giorgio Sacerdoti: If we don't meet again ... Letters from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (1938 to 1945) , Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-00-1 , 598 pages
  • Giorgio Sacerdoti: Nel caso non ci rivedessimo. Una famiglia tra deportazione e salvezza 1939–1945, Archinto, Milano, 2013 (extended Italian edition)
  • Giorgio Sacerdoti: Piero Sacerdoti (1905-1966). Uomo di pensiero e azione alla guida della Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà. Lettere familiari e altre memorie, Milano, 2019, ISBN 978-88-203-9096-9

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giorgio Sacerdoti, Giorgio: If we don't see each other again ...: The Siegmund Klein family between rescue and death: Letters from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (1938 to 1945) . Prospero, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-00-1 , pp. 327 ff .
  2. ↑ Olga Tarcali: Return to Erfurt: memories of a destroyed youth . Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89702-399-7 .
  3. ↑ a b The London Times (Ed.): Obituary: Professor Piero Sacerdoti . London 6th January 1967.
  4. ↑ a b SACERDOTI, Piero in "Dizionario Biografico". Retrieved February 9, 2019 (it-IT).
  5. ^ Questo numero è dedicato alla memoria di Piero Sacerdoti . In: RAS (ed.): Bollettino tecnico del gruppo RAS Band 35 , no. 2 . Milano 1967, p. 103 .
  6. ↑ Giorgio Sacerdoti: If we don't meet again ...: The Siegmund Klein family between rescue and death: Letters from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (1938 to 1945) . Prospero, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-00-1 , pp. 315 .
  7. ↑ a b Giorgio Sacerdoti: If we don't meet again ...: The Siegmund Klein family between rescue and death: Letters from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (1938 to 1945) . Prospero, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-00-1 , pp. 489 f .
  8. ↑ Giorgio Sacerdoti: If we don't meet again ...: The Siegmund Klein family between rescue and death: Letters from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (1938 to 1945) . Prospero, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-941688-00-1 , pp. 598 .
personal data
SURNAME Sacerdoti, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer, insurance manager and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1966
Place of death St. Moritz