Ferruccio Parri [SEP] occupation
Ferruccio Parri
Ferruccio Parri (; 19 January 1890 in Pinerolo – 8 December 1981 in Rome) was an Italian partisan and politician who ruled Italy as the 29th Prime Minister of Italy for several months in 1945. During the resistance he was known as Maurizio.
Biography.
Parri was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont. A soldier during World War I, he was wounded four times and received four decorations. He studied literature and after the war he was a journalist with the "Corriere della Sera".
Biography Antifascist militant
to Parma to convince some Fascist members to abandon that party, but was discovered and sentenced to 21 years. He was freed at the fall of the Fascist regime on August 23, 1943 and subsequently took part to the partisan resistance in the Brigate Garibaldi.
In 1944, together with Ferruccio Parri and Alfredo Pizzoni, he was appointed as president of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (National Liberation Committee) of northern Italy (then still under German occupation). He became also Chief of Staff of the partisan military forces.