Guido Donegani [SEP] place of death
Guido Donegani
Guido Donegani (26 March 1877 in Livorno – 16 April 1947 in Bordighera), was a prominent Italian engineer, businessman and politician. He was CEO and President of the Italian chemical industrial giant Montecatini from 1910-1945. Due to his support to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini he was arrested at the end of the Second World War, but acquitted of charges of collaboration.
Early life.
Donegani was born in the port city Livorno. The Donegani family was part of the Livorno business elite
his father Giovan Battista Donegani and his uncle Giulio Donegani were involved in the Montecatini Mining Company ("Società Minerarie Montecatini"), which had been founded in 1888 at Montecatini Val di Cecina in Tuscany and was active in mining copper pyrite. Through a series of complicated agreements with Italian banks and French investor groups, the Donegani's exercised a decisive role in the ownership of Montecatini.
In 1910, after the death of his father and the acquisition of "Unione piriti" – the major Italian pyrite producer – Guido Donegani