Tina Anselmi

Tina Anselmi

Tina Anselmi (born March 25, 1927 in Castelfranco Veneto , Treviso Province , Veneto ; † November 1, 2016 ibid) was an Italian politician of the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) from 1968 to 1992 . She was the first woman to hold ministerial office in an Italian government. In its obituary, Der Spiegel classified her as a champion for an equality law, a champion for democracy and human rights.

Life

After Tina Anselmi witnessed the execution of 31 prisoners by the German occupiers in 1944, the 17-year-old joined a partisan brigade. After the end of the war she completed her studies with a laureate in lettere and then worked as a teacher. In the elections of April 19, 1968 she was elected for the first time as a member of the Camera dei deputati for the DC and represented the constituency of Venezia until April 22, 1992 . In the fifth, sixth and seventh legislative periods , she was a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Insurance from July 1968 to June 1979.

On March 16, 1974, Tina Anselmi was appointed to her first government office by Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and until July 29, 1976 she held the position of Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in his fifth cabinet and in the fourth and fifth Moro cabinet (Sottosegretario di Stato al Lavoro e Previdenza Sociale) .

Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti appointed her Minister of Labor and Social Security (Ministro del Lavoro e Previdenza Sociale) on July 29, 1976 in his third cabinet , to which she was a member until March 11, 1978. In the following fourth and fifth Andreotti cabinet she was Minister of Health (Ministro della Sanità) from March 11, 1978 to August 4, 1979 .

During the eighth and ninth legislative periods, Tina Anselmi was a member of the Committee on Hygiene and Health from July 1979 to September 1985, and from December 1981 to July 1987 chairwoman of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due (P2). About the experience there and the Worshipful Master Licio Gelli led Loge she wrote among other things the 1984 published book Un documento storico: il complotto di Licio Gelli . Der Spiegel wrote about her role in the investigative committee: “... managed in her indomitable way to expose the lodge around Licio Gelli as the secret command center of the Italian Republic. The avowed Catholic spared neither party friends nor political opponents. "

She was again a member of the Labor and Social Insurance Committee from September 1985 to July 1987 and most recently during the tenth legislative period, initially from August to November 1987 as a member of the Social Committee and then from November 1987 to April 1992 as a member of the Working Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.

Publications

• Il 1975 anno internazionale della donna: discorso pronunciato a Roma il 27 febbraio 1975 nella sede del Banco di Roma, sotto gli auspici del Centro italiano di studi per la conciliazione internazionale , Rome, Banco di Roma, 1975.
• Un documento storico: il complotto di Licio Gelli , 1984.
• La rocca del paradiso , Turin, SEI, 1985.
• Intorno a Macondo: itinerario per i giovani alla ricerca di un nuovo impegno civile , CENS, 1993.
• Nonostante donna: storie civili al femminile , Turin, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 1996, ISBN 88-7670-263-6 .
• Zia, cos'è la resistancea? , San Cesario di Lecce, Manni, 2003, ISBN 88-8176-442-3 .
• Bella ciao: la resistenza raccontata ai ragazzi , Pordenone, Biblioteca dell'immagine, 2004, ISBN 88-89199-00-8 .
• Storia di una passione politica , in: La gioia condivisa dell'impegno , co-author Anna Vinci, Sperling & Kupfer Milano, 2006, ISBN 88-200-4051-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ È morta Tina Anselmi, prima donna ministra della Repubblica italiana . La Repubblica , November 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 (Italian).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Der Spiegel: Tina Anselmi, 89 , Obituaries, Der Spiegel 45/2016, p. 141.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (5th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (6th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (7th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (8th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (9th legislative period)
• Entry on the homepage of the Camera dei deputati (10th legislative period)