Vittorio Cerruti

Vittorio Cerruti (born May 25, 1881 in Novara ; † April 25, 1961 there ) was an Italian diplomat .

Life

Vittorio Cerruti was the son of Giuseppina Reclocchi and Cario Cerruti.

He studied law at the University of Rome until 1903 . In 1904 he joined the foreign service and from August 21, 1904 to 1915 he was legation secretary at the Italian embassy in Vienna . In 1907 he was a delegate at one of the Hague Peace Conferences . In 1908 he was promoted to second class legation secretary and in 1913 to first class legation secretary. In 1915 he was drafted into the General Staff of the Italian Army . In 1916 he was secretary of the embassy in Buenos Aires . He married Elisabetta de Paulay on June 2, 1923 in Shanghai .

From February 6, 1927 to May 12, 1930 he was ambassador to Moscow . From May 12, 1930 to August 25, 1932 he was ambassador to Rio de Janeiro . From August 25, 1932 to July 26, 1935 he was ambassador in Berlin . From July 26, 1935 to November 20, 1938 he was ambassador to Paris . On June 21, 1938 with the rank of ambassador in the retirement staggered.

From 1946 until his death he was chairman of the board of Banco Popolare di Novara .

literature

• Gianluca Falanga: Mussolini's Outpost in Hitler's Reich: Italy's Politics in Berlin 1933–1945 . Christoph Links Verlag, 1st edition 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hortense Serristori: Memorie Di Hortense , p. 311
2. ↑ Manfred Pohl, Handbook on the History of European Banks , European Association for Banking History, p. 615

predecessor	Office	successor
Gaetano Manzoni	Italian envoy to Moscow 1927–1930	Bernardo Attolico
Bernardo Attolico	Italian envoy to Rio de Janeiro 1930–1932	Vincenzo Lojacono
Luca Orsini Baroni	Italian ambassador in Berlin 1932–1935	Bernardo Attolico
Bonifacio Pignatti Morano di Custoza	Italian ambassador in Paris 1935–1938	Raffaele Guariglia di Vituso
Sante Scolari	Chairman of the board of Banca Popolare di Novara 1946–1961	Sandro Sozzetti