Giacomo Ferrari (politician)
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Giacomo Ferrari | |
|---|---|
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| Mayor of Parma | |
| In office October 1951 – February 1963 | |
| Minister of Transport | |
| In office 13 June 1946 – 31 May 1947 | |
| Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 November 1887 |
| Died | 22 August 1974 (aged 86) Bosco di Corniglio, Italy |
| Resting place | Viletta cemetery, Parma |
| Party | |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic University of Turin |
| Occupation | Industrial engineer |
Giacomo Ferrari (1887–1974) was an Italian industrial engineer and communist politician. He served as a minister of transport between 1946 and 1947. He was a member of the Italian Senate and was the mayor of Parma from 1951 to 1953.
Ferrari was born in Langhirano, Province of Parma, on 5 November 1887 into a wealthy bourgeois family.[1][2] He became interested in scientific socialism in his youth and joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1902.[2][3] He studied mathematics in Parma for two years and then attended the Polytechnic University of Turin.[1] He received a degree in industrial engineering in December 1912.[1]
Career and activities
Following his graduation, Ferrari worked as an engineer in Apulia.[1] He joined the army and fought in World War I as an artillery lieutenant.[2] He was discharged from the army in 1920 and returned to Parma where he worked in the consortium of cooperatives.[2] He left Italy for France on 13 December 1931 due to the increase of the Fascist rule's oppression and settled in Toulouse.[2] In 1942 Ferrari returned to Italy and joined the Italian Communist Party.[2][3] He was among the founders of the National Liberation Committee of Parma and involved in the armed struggle against the Fascist forces.[1]
After the end of the Fascist rule, Ferrari was elected as a deputy from the Communist Party to the Constituent Assembly on 2 June 1946.[1][4] He was appointed minister of transport to the second De Gasperi government on 13 June and held the post also in the third De Gasperi government until 31 May 1947.[1] Ferrari was elected to the Senate in 1948 for the Panna constituency, obtaining 52,367 votes.[1] From October 1951 to February 1963 he was mayor of Parma.[5]
On 28 April 1963 Ferrari was re-elected to the Senate from the Parma constituency, receiving 51,537 votes.[1] In the next elections held on 19 May 1968, he was also elected as a senator with 61,048 votes.[1] At the end of the term in 1970 he retired from politics.[1]
