11 Facts About Roberto Tremelloni

Roberto Tremelloni was an Italian economist, academic, businessman and social democratic politician.

Roberto Tremelloni initially studied accounting at the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo in the city, before graduating with a degree in economics and commercial sciences at the University of Turin in 1924.

Roberto Tremelloni then became a devoted supporter of the evolutionary socialist and anti-fascist Filippo Turati, following him into the ranks of the Unitary Socialist Party when it was formed in 1922.

The PSU, having broken away from the Italian Socialist Party, was absorbed back into it in 1930, and Roberto Tremelloni emerged as a prominent member of its reformist wing, alongside the likes of Turati, Claudio Treves, Carlo Rosselli and Giuseppe Saragat.

Roberto Tremelloni co-founded the financial newspaper 24 ore, modelled on the Financial Times, which was first published on 15 February 1933.

Roberto Tremelloni remained a senior figure in the PSI for many years and then, after its establishment in 1947, in the breakaway Italian Democratic Socialist Party.

Roberto Tremelloni was appointed minister without portfolio, responsible for the implementation of the Marshall Plan, in De Gasperi's fifth cabinet in 1948.

Out of government, Roberto Tremelloni then became the president of the Istituto per le Relazioni Pubbliche, founded in Milan in 1952, and the following year he was appointed Professor of Economics and Business Organisation at the Polytechnic of Milan.

Roberto Tremelloni was minister of defense from 23 February 1966 to 23 June 1968.

Roberto Tremelloni was a board member of the European Investment Bank when serving as treasury minister.

Roberto Tremelloni died of heart attack at a hospital in Bruneck, South Tyrol, on 8 September 1987.