Quinto Quintieri

Quinto Quintieri
Minister of Treasury and Finance
In office
22 April 1944 – 8 June 1944
Prime MinisterPietro Badoglio
Preceded byGuido Jung
Succeeded byStefano Siglienti
Personal details
Born12 August 1894
Sorrento, Kingdom of Italy
Died23 December 1968(1968-12-23) (aged 74)
Geneva, Switzerland
Political partyItalian Liberal Party
Alma materUniversity of Naples
Occupation
  • Engineer
  • Banker

Quinto Quintieri (12 August 1894 – 23 December 1968) was an Italian engineer and banker. He briefly served as the minister of treasury and finance in 1944 shortly after the end of the Fascist rule in Italy.

Early years and education

Quintieri was born in Sorrento on 12 August 1894.[1][2] His family were from Carolei, a village in the Cosentino area.[3] His father was a landowner and an academic who was the cofounder of the Bank of Calabria.[3] He had four sisters.[1] He received a degree in engineering from the University of Naples.[1] Quintieri worked as a military instructor at the Academy of Turin during his studies in the period of World War I.[1]

Career and activities

Following his graduation he worked at the Bank of Calabria and became its president after the death of his father.[1] He was appointed minister of treasury and finance in the second Badoglio cabinet which lasted only 47 days between 22 April 1944 and 8 June 1944.[3] He was one of the three Calabrian representatives in the government.[4] The others were Fausto Gullo and Pietro Mancini.[4]

Quintieri started a newspaper entitled Il Giornale which folded in 1957 and a weekly La Libertà in June 1944.[1] In 1944 he and another banker Raffaele Mattioli were assigned by Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi as the head of the Italian delegate which visited the USA for the potential economic support.[5] In 1946, Quintieri was elected as a member to the Constituent Assembly for the Italian Liberal Party.[6] He served there between 25 June 1946 and 31 January 1948.[3] The assembly had the task of creating the Italian Constitution.[3]

After retiring from politics in 1948 Quintieri resumed his post at the Bank of Calabria.[6] He also became vice-president of Confindustria in 1949 and then president of the Union of Industrialists which included representations from the six countries of the European Coal and Steel Community.[1]

Personal life and death

Quintieri settled in Switzerland in 1957.[1] He remained unmarried and died in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23 December 1968.[1]

Honors

Quintieri was awarded the Knights of Labor in 1958.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Maria Gabriella Rienzo (2016). "Quintieri, Quinto". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 86.
  2. ^ "Quinto Quintieri: l'ingegnere di Sorrento che ha dato radici campane alla Costituzione italiana". Vesuvio (in Italian). 22 August 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Salvatore Foggiano (9 July 2014). "Uno dei padri della Costituzione nato a Sorrento: Quinto Quintieri". Sorrento Post (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b Stavroula Pipyrou (2010). "Urbanities: Grecanici Migration to the City of Reggio Calabria, South Italy". History and Anthropology. 21 (1): 23. doi:10.1080/02757201003647141. S2CID 144996934.
  5. ^ Leopoldo Nuti (March 2022). "An Overview of US-Italian Relations: The Legacy of the Past". Istituto Affari Internazionali (2): 4.
  6. ^ a b Salvatore Esposito (21 August 2015). "Quinto Quintieri, un sorrentino tra i padri della Costituzione italiana". Corso Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 22 October 2022.