Giacomo Acerbo

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Giacomo Acerbo
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
In office
12 September 1929 – 23 January 1935
Preceded byGiuseppe De Capitani D'Arzago
Succeeded byEdmondo Rossoni
Personal details
Born25 July 1888
Loreto Aprutino, Kingdom of Italy
Died9 January 1969 (aged 80)
Rome, Italy
Political partyPNF (1922–1943)
Independent (1943–1946)
PNM (1946–1959)
Alma materUniversity of Pisa

Giacomo Acerbo, Baron of Aterno (25 July 1888 – 9 January 1969), was an Italian economist and politician. He is best known for having drafted the Acerbo Law that allowed the National Fascist Party (PNF) to achieve a supermajority of two-thirds of the Italian Parliament after the 1924 Italian general election, which saw intimidation tactics against voters.

Early life

Acerbo was born to an old family of the local nobility of

captain
.

Acerbo resumed his work as an assistant professor in the faculty of economics, and he planned for a university career. At the same time, he promoted the Association of Servicemen of Teramo and Chieti (Italian: Associazione dei combattenti di Teramo e Chieti), which broke away from the national association after the 1919 Italian general election and became the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento's provincial group.

Fascism

Elected to the country's

King Victor Emmanuel III. He then accompanied Benito Mussolini as he was designated Prime Minister of Italy
, and he became his undersecretary.

In November 1923, the Acerbo Law passed; he was again elected a deputy in 1924, winning his nobiliary title. Acerbo was marginally involved in the inquiry over the killing of Giacomo Matteotti, and he left his position in the government. In 1924, he instituted the Coppa Acerbo in memory of his brother Tito Acerbo, who was a war hero. Acerbo was elected vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies in 1926, and he was Italy's Agriculture and Forestry Minister from 1929 to 1935. As minister, he dedicated himself to projects for universally extended drainage. Together with Gabriele D'Annunzio, he contributed to the creation of the Province of Pescara in January 1927.

Acerbo became head of the Economics and Commerce Faculty at the

Greco-Italian War. From February 1943, he was also Italy's Minister of Finance
.

Split with Mussolini and later life

Being a staunch and ardent

Fascist Italy allied closer with Nazi Germany, the Fascist regime gave Italian Nordicists prominent positions in the PNF, which aggravated the original Mediterraneanists in the party like Acerbo.[1]: 188, 168, 146  In 1941, the PNF's Mediterraneanists, led by Acerbo, put forward a comprehensive definition of the Italian race as primarily Mediterranean.[1]: 146  The Mediterraneanists were derailed by Mussolini's endorsement of Nordicist figures with the appointment of Alberto Luchini, a Nordicist, as head of Italy's Racial Office in May 1941, as well as with Mussolini becoming interested with Julius Evola's spiritual Nordicism in late 1941.[1]: 146  In his High Council on Demography and Race, Acerbo and the Mediterraneanists sought to return Italian fascism to Mediterraneanism by denouncing the pro-Nordicist Manifesto of the Racial Scientists.[1]
: 146 

On 25 July 1943, Acerbo sided with

Italian Parliament.[citation needed] Acerbo died in Rome in 1969.[citation needed] He is also remembered for his passion as a collector of ancient pottery and created a Gallery dedicated to ceramics of the Abruzzo.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Aaron Gillette (2001–2002). Racial Theories in Fascist Italy. Routledge.

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Preceded by Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
1929-1935 		Succeeded by
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