Guido Colonna di Paliano
| Guido Colonna di Paliano | |
|---|---|
| European Commissioner for Industrial Affairs | |
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In office 2 July 1967 – 8 May 1970 |
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| President | Jean Rey |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Altiero Spinelli (Industrial Affairs and Trade) |
| European Commissioner for Internal Market | |
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In office 30 July 1964 – 2 July 1967 |
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| President | Walter Hallstein |
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Caron |
| Succeeded by | Hans von der Groeben (Internal Market and Regional Policy) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 April 1908 Naples, Italy |
| Died | 27 January 1982 (aged 73) Naples, Italy |
| Political party | Christian Democracy |
| Alma mater | University of Naples |
Don Guido Colonna, dei principi di Paliano, noble of Rome, patrician of Naples and Venice (16 April 1908 in Naples – 27 January 1982 in Milan) was an Italian aristocrat, diplomat and European Commissioner.
Guido Colonna di Paliano was a scion of the Colonna family, from the branch of the Princes of Paliano and the sub-branch of the Princes of Summonte (his elder brother Carlo would eventually succeed their uncle as 5th Prince of Summonte in 1956). He was the seventh child and fourth son of Don Stefano Colonna, dei principi di Paliano (1870-1948) (a son of the 3rd Prince of Summonte), and his wife Maria Dorotea Cianciulli (1875-1942). Marquess Guglielmo Imperiali (1858-1944), an influential diplomat and Italian ambassador to London during the First World War, was the husband of his paternal aunt. Through his mother, he was a descendant of Michelangelo, Marquess Cianciulli (1734-1819), a jurist and Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Naples, famous for settling the bill of law abolishing feudalism in that Kingdom.
Guido Colonna himself graduated in law in 1930 from the University of Naples. Before the Second World War, he served in America as Italy's vice-consul to New York City from 1934 to 1937 and then to Toronto from 1937 to 1939. From 1939 to 1940 he was secretary of the Italian embassy in Cairo.
After the war, he was Secretary-General of the Italian delegation at the Marshall Plan negotiations (October 1947-March 1948), then Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (10 May 1948-July 1956). In 1956, he was appointed deputy general director for political affairs in the Italian foreign affairs ministry. He was promoted to the rank of minister on 20 October 1957. From December 1958 to July 1962, he was Italian ambassador to Norway, succeeding Paolo Vita Finzi. He was deputy secretary general of NATO from 1962 to 1964.
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