Pietro Nenni

Pietro Nenni 1964

Pietro Nenni (born February 9, 1891 in Faenza , † January 1, 1980 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and foreign minister of the country.

Life

Initially a pacifist journalist, he joined the PRI in 1908 , after the traumatic experiences of the First World War he founded the local fascist group in Bologna. In 1921, however, he broke with Benito Mussolini and moved to PSI . In 1923 he became editor-in-chief of the PSI newspaper Avanti! , but had to flee into exile in France under Mussolini's fascism in 1926 . He met several times in secret with Guglielmo Canevascini and Friedrich Adler on Monte Generoso in the canton of Ticino . From 1931 to 1939 he was a member of the Executive Council of the Socialist International . From 1936 to 1939 he took part in the Spanish Civil War.

From 1943 on he was the organizer of the PSI, was a member of the National Liberation Committee and returned to Italian politics in 1944 as its General Secretary. From 1945 to 1947 he was Deputy Prime Minister and from 1946 Italian Foreign Minister. In 1946 he was elected to the constituent national assembly (Konstituante). From 1948 to 1970 he was a member of the Italian Parliament without interruption. In 1950 Nenni appeared as President of the World Peace Council . He was initially in favor of a collaboration with the PCI , but turned away from the events in Hungary in 1956.

After the merger to form the Party of United Socialists ( PSI ), he was Deputy Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968 in the three cabinets of the first “center-left” government after Aldo Moro's “Apertura a sinistra” (Eng. “Opening to the left”) . From 1968 until the resignation of the first cabinet of Mariano Rumor in June 1969, he served once again as Italian Foreign Minister.

From 1966 to 1969 he was President of PSI. Tensions with the left wing of his party led to its split in July 1969. Nenni was an enthusiastic European politician, advocated the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and was committed to establishing diplomatic relations between Italy and the People's Republic of China .

In 1969 he resigned from all party offices. In 1970 he became a senator for life.

literature

• Franco Andreucci, Tommaso Detti (eds.): Il movimento operaio italiano: dizionario biografico 1853-1943. Vol. 3, Editori riuniti, Roma 1977.
• Mauro Cerutti: Pietro Nenni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 29, 2009 , accessed May 1, 2020 .
• Marco Gervasoni:  Nenni, Pietro. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 78:  Natta – Nurra. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2013.
• Elio Santarelli: Pietro Nenni. Utet, Torino 1988.

Web links

Commons : Pietro Nenni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Pietro Nenni in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Pietro Nenni in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati
• Entry on senato.it