Mauro Scoccimarro

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Mauro Scoccimarro
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Minister of Finance
In office
June 1945 – December 1945
Prime MinisterFerruccio Parri
Minister of Finance
In office
December 1945 – January 1947
Prime MinisterAlcide De Gasperi
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byPietro Campilli
Personal details
Born30 October 1895
Udine
Died1 January 1972(1972-01-01) (aged 76)
Rome
NationalityItalian
Political partyItalian Communist Party
Alma materCa' Foscari University of Venice

Mauro Scoccimarro (30 October 1895–2 January 1972) was an Italian economist and communist politician. He was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party and the minister of finance between 1945 and 1947.[1]

Early life and education[]

Scoccimarro was born in Udine on 30 October 1895.[2][3] His father was of Apulian origin and an employee of the railways.[4]

Scoccimarro graduated from Zanon Technical Institute in Udine in October 1913.[4] He attended Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science in 1922.[2] He involved in World War I and joined socialist party during this period, but following the party congress in Livorno in 1921 he left the party to establish the Communist Party.[1]

Career[]

In 1923 Scoccimarro was made a member of the Communist Party's secretariat together with Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti.[1] In 1926 Scoccimarro was arrested by the Fascists and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. He was released from the prison in 1937, but sent to the Island of Ponza, and then the Island of Ventotene where he lived under police surveillance until July 1943 when the rule of Benito Mussolini, fascist leader of Italy, was toppled.[1] Following the liberation of Rome in June 1944 Scoccimarro acted as High Commissioner for the expulsion of fascists and was the minister of occupied territories.[1][5] In the latter capacity he found an opportunity to strengthen the positions of Italian communists in the northern regions of Italy.[5] Scoccimarro's next post was the minister of finance which he held between June and December in the cabinet of Ferruccio Parri and then, between December 1945 and January 1947 in the second cabinet of Alcide De Gasperi.[6] In 1948 Scoccimarro was elected as a senator which he held until 1972.[1] In addition from 1958 to 1972 he was vice president of the Senate.[2]

Death[]

Scoccimarro died in Rome on 2 January 1972.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Mauro Scoccimarro Dies at 76; A Shaper of Italian Communism". The New York Times. Rome. 3 June 1972. p. 31. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Mauro Scoccimarro" (in Italian). ANPI. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  3. ^ Guido Samarani (2018). "History and Memory: Italian Communists' Views of the Chinese Communist Party and the prc During the Early Cold War". In Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl; Marco Wyss; Valeria Zanier (eds.). Europe and China in the Cold War. Brill. pp. 134–150. doi:10.1163/9789004388123_008. ISBN 978-90-04-38559-7.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Scoccimarro Mauro (1895-1972)" (in Italian). Biographical Dictionary of Friulani. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Norman Kogan (June 1953). "The Italian Action Party and the Institutional Question". The Western Political Quarterly. 6 (2): 293. doi:10.2307/442162.
  6. ^ Martinez Oliva; Juan Carlos (2007). "The Italian Stabilization of 1947: Domestic and International Factors" (PDF). Institute of European Studies: 17.

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