1. Giacomo Acerbo, Baron of Aterno, was an Italian economist and politician.
16 Facts About Giacomo Acerbo
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Giacomo Acerbo is best known for having drafted the Acerbo Law that allowed the National Fascist Party to achieve a supermajority of two-thirds of the Italian Parliament after the 1924 Italian general election, which saw intimidation tactics against voters.
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Giacomo Acerbo was educated in Pisa, graduating in agricultural sciences from the University of Pisa in 1912.
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Giacomo Acerbo resumed his work as an assistant professor in the faculty of economics, and he planned for a university career.
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Giacomo Acerbo then accompanied Benito Mussolini as he was designated Prime Minister of Italy, and he became his undersecretary.
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In November 1923, the Giacomo Acerbo Law passed; he was again elected a deputy in 1924, winning his nobiliary title.
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In 1924, he instituted the Coppa Giacomo Acerbo in memory of his brother Tito Giacomo Acerbo, who was a war hero.
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Giacomo 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.
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Giacomo Acerbo became head of the Economics and Commerce Faculty at the University of Rome in 1934.
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When World War II began and Italy joined the Nazi German offensive, Giacomo Acerbo served as member of the Italian Army's General Staff during the marginal manoeuvre in the Battle of France as part of the Italian manoeuvre in the Battle of France, and the Italian campaign of the Greco-Italian War.
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Giacomo Acerbo was critical of Nazi Nordicism, as Nazi Nordicism inherently classified Italians and other Mediterranean people as inferior or degenerate to Nordic and Germanic people.
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In 1941, the PNF's Mediterraneanists, led by Giacomo Acerbo, put forward a comprehensive definition of the Italian race as primarily Mediterranean.
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On 25 July 1943, Giacomo Acerbo sided with Dino Grandi when the latter attempted to topple Mussolini and take Italy out of the war.
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Giacomo Acerbo voted in favour of the motion that stripped Mussolini of his powers, and he took refuge in his home region, the Allied-occupied Abruzzo, after Mussolini regained some standing with help from the Nazis, establishing the Italian Social Republic, one that proscribed all opponents during the Verona trial.
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Giacomo Acerbo received numerous distinctions and titles in academia, and he was awarded a gold medal by the Italian president Antonio Segni.
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Giacomo Acerbo is remembered for his passion as a collector of ancient pottery and created a Gallery dedicated to ceramics of the Abruzzo.