Susanna Agnelli

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Susanna Agnelli (born April 24, 1922 in Turin , † May 15, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian politician .

Life

Susanna Agnelli was the daughter of Edoardo Agnellis and Virginia Bourbons as well as sister Giovanni Agnellis , the longtime managing partner of FIAT , with whom she had a very close relationship until his death.

Susanna Agnelli

After the accidental death of her father, she and her five siblings came to see their father's grandfather, who forbade her mother to have contact with the children. Only at the urging of Benito Mussolini , whom their mother had asked for help, could the children go back to her. Susanna Agnelli was a member of the Piccole Italiane , an organization for girls corresponding to Balilla . In the Second World War, after graduating from high school, she worked as a nurse in the Roman military hospital of the Air Force, the Ospedale Littorio . After her mother sent her and her sisters to Switzerland to Ouchy for further training, she enrolled at the University of Lausanne to study medicine, which she continued at the University of Rome after the war , but without completing it. As is clear from her memoirs, she was close friends with the family of the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano from childhood and also had contact with Emilio Pucci .

Then she was mayor of Monte Argentario from 1974 to 1984 . Since 1982 she has been responding to reader problems in the weekly Oggi .

For two legislative terms, from 1976 to 1983, Agnelli represented the Partito Repubblicano Italiano (PRI) in the Camera dei deputati . In 1979 she was elected to the European Parliament . She stayed there for a little over two years and was a member of the Committee on External Economic Relations. In 1983 and 1987 she was elected Senator . Between 1984 and 1987 Susanna Agnelli was a member of the UN Human Rights Commission . In 1993 Susanna Agnelli applied for the post of mayor in Rome. After she had already been State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various governments (from 1983 to 1991), she became the first female foreign minister in the history of Italy from 1995 to 1996 in the government of Prime Minister Dini .

In 1984, Mount Holyoke College awarded her an honorary doctorate in law.

She often referred to her family as the "Kennedys" of Italy. Agnelli was married to Urbano Rattazzi (1918–2012), from whom she later divorced, and was the mother of six children. Agnelli got involved in various social activities, since 1992 she was president of the Italian Fondazione Theleton , a non-profit organization (see also Telethon ). She died on May 15, 2009 in the Gemelli Clinic in Rome.

Fonts

  • We always wore sailor clothes. Piper Verlag, Munich 1978, last Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-10726-5 (ital .: Vestivamo alla marinara. Mondadori, Milan 1975; autobiography; awarded the Premio Bancarella in 1975 ).
  • Gente alla deriva. (1980)
  • Ricordati Gualeguaychu. (1982)
  • Addio, addio mio ultimo amore. (1985)

literature

  • Vito Avantario: The Agnellis: The secret rulers of Italy , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2002, ISBN 3-593-36906-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanna Agnelli: We always wore sailor clothes , Piper Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-10726-5 (p. 108ff)
  2. ↑ Kerstin Becker: Kummerkastentante Susanna Agnelli - The woman without pardon: "Why don't you emigrate, Europe is big", Welt online, November 9, 1998.
  3. ↑ Urbano Rattazzi
  4. ^ Obituary in the Corriere della Sera
personal data
SURNAME Agnelli, Susanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, member of the camera, MEP, member of the Senato della Repubblica
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2009
Place of death Rome