Giuseppe Volpi , count di Misurata (born with Venice the November 19th 1877, died with Rome the November 16th 1947) is a Entrepreneur and a politician Italy N. It was Gouverneur Tripolitaine, Minister for Finance and president of the Confindustria.
Biography
The rise
Orphan of father and because of the little of financial means, it gives up his studies at the university of Padoue and goes in the Ottoman Empire to make fortune. Become rich by exporting Tobacco Montenegro, it invests its profits in the emergent industry from the electricity and in 1905, it returns in Italy where it creates SADE (Adriatic Company of électricté), obtaining an important position in the sector of the production and the supply of electrical energy.In 1917, it is among the people who take part in the realization of the new port Marghera and after the First World War, it acquires prestigious chains of hotels thus managing with Venice the Large Hotel and Excelsior.
The fascistic period
Although Freemason, it adheres to the Fascisme and of 1922 with 1925 he is governor of the Tripolitaine. In this function, it endorses lasts it repression ordered by the general Rodolfo Graziani against the freedom fighter Libyan. In 1925, the title of count di Misurata is conceded to him by Victor-Emmanuel III, king d' Italie. From 1925 with 1928, he is Minister for Finance of the government of Benito Mussolini: its government action seeks to support the bringing together of the capitalist towards Fascism.He is president of the Confindustria of 1934 to 1943, he is made the promoter of the interests of Italian capitalism near the mode, ensuring exchanges of it the support and collaboration of the industrial world with Fascism and the mussolinien political project. The support decreases as from 1943 when the important destruction caused with the infrastructures and the Italian industrial plants by the Anglo-American offensive - and the conscience that the war is irremediably lost - puts in crisis politics and economics of the country.
During the years when he is president of Confindustria, Volpi is also president of the Biennale de Venise and the principal promoter of the international exhibition of cinematographic art, now known as the will mostra international of cinematographic art of Venice. For this reason, the price of the best actor and that of the best actress (" Cuts Volpi ") bear its name.
In the first months of 1943, Mussolini proceeds to a vast rehandling of its government which touches Galeazzo Ciano and Alessandro Pavolini as Volpi which is replaced the April 30th by the managing director Giovanni Balella. For this Volpi reason does not take part in the meeting of the Grand council of the Fascism, in which it took part of right in its quality of president of Confindustria, which in the July 25th relieves Benito Mussolini. Grown Dino which is one of the instigators of the fall of the fascistic mode and a personal friend of Volpi, it informs only the following day of it. It is at this period that Volpi starts with to present the primary symptoms of the disease (Diabète) which in little year makes him lose its intellectual abilities and the conduit with death.
Decline
It tries by twice fleeing in Suisse without success (the July 26th and the October 16th). The day which precedes its second attempt, he delegates the administration of his companies to the count Vittorio Cini. He is stopped by the S and is retained several days in the prison of Via Tasso, but taking into account its state, on the intervention of the marshal Rodolfo Graziani, he is released and returned to his family.After the war, he is judged on several occasions for his responsibility for the fascistic period but its state prevents it from arising in front of the judges and thanks to the amnesty Togliatti and with testimonys in its favor by personalities antifascists, he is discharged from all the charges.
Its tomb is in the Basilique of Frari in Venice.
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