Alcide de Gasperi
| Alcide De Gasperi | |
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| 30th Prime Minister of Italy | |
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In office 10 December 1945 – 17 August 1953 |
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| Monarch | |
| Lieutenant General | Prince Umberto |
| President | |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Ferruccio Parri |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Pella |
| President of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1 January 1954 – 19 August 1954 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Henri Spaak |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Pella |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 26 July 1951 – 17 August 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Carlo Sforza |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Pella |
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In office 12 December 1944 – 18 October 1946 |
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| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Ivanoe Bonomi |
| Succeeded by | Pietro Nenni |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 14 July 1946 – 2 February 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Giuseppe Romita |
| Succeeded by | Mario Scelba |
| Provisional Head of State of Italy | |
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In office 18 June 1946 – 28 June 1946 |
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| Preceded by | King Umberto II |
| Succeeded by | Enrico De Nicola |
| Minister of the Italian Africa | |
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In office 10 December 1945 – 19 April 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Ferruccio Parri |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi 3 April 1881 Pieve Tesino, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 19 August 1954 (aged 73) Borgo Valsugana, Trentino, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party |
UPPT (1906–1920) PPI (1920–1926) Independent (1926–1943) DC (1943–1954) |
| Spouse(s) |
Francesca Romani (m. 1894–1954); his death |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
University of Innsbruck University of Vienna |
| Profession |
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| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi (Italian pronunciation: [alˈtʃiːde de ˈɡasperi]; 3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician who founded the Christian Democracy party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year term in office remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. De Gasperi is the fourth longest-serving Prime Minister since the Italian Unification.
A conservative Catholic, he was one of the founding fathers of the European Union, along with fellow Italian Altiero Spinelli, the French Robert Schuman, and the West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
De Gasperi was born in Pieve Tesino in Tyrol, which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary, now part of the province of Trentino in Italy. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Vienna, where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired by the Rerum novarum encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. In 1904 he took an active part in student demonstrations in favour of an Italian-language university. Imprisoned with other protesters during the inauguration of the Italian juridical faculty in Innsbruck, he was released after twenty days. In 1905, De Gasperi obtained a degree in philology.
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