{{Short description|Italian lawyer and politician (1889–1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Dino Philipson XXV legislatura.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Dino Philipson while serving in the XXVth legislature in the 1920s | office = Secretary of the Council of Ministers | prime_minister = Pietro Badoglio | predecessor = Pietro Baratono | successor = Renato Morelli | term_start = February 1944 | term_end = April 1944 | birth_date = 1889 | birth_place = Florence, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death year and age|1972|1889}} | death_place = Pistoia, Italy | resting_place = | party = Liberal Party | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | parents = {{ubl|Edoardo Philipson (father) | Sophie Rodrigues Pereire (mother)}} }} '''Dino Philipson''' (1889–1972) was an Italian lawyer and anti-Fascist politician who was a member of the Liberal Party. During the Fascist rule he left Italy, but then returned to the country and was arrested by the Fascist authorities.
==Early life and education== Philipson was born in Florence in 1889.<ref name=gcf20/> His father, Edoardo Philipson, was an engineer who was one of the most influential members of the Florentine Jewish Community of the nineteenth century, and builder of ''Villa Philipson'' in Pistoia.<ref name=gcf20/><ref>{{cite web|author=F. Giorgi Magrini|title=Villa Philipson. Una finestra aperta sul '500|website=pistoiasette.net|date=20 October 2020|url=https://www.pistoiasette.net/articolo.php?cat=7&id=3662|language=it|access-date=1 January 2024}}</ref> Philipson was the business partner of Ubaldino Peruzzi who served as the minister of public works for two terms.<ref name=gcf20/> His mother was Sophie Rodrigues Pereire, daughter of Isaac Pereire, who was a French banker of Sephardi descent from Portugal.<ref name=gcf20/>
Dino Philipson was raised in Pistoia and obtained a bachelor's degree in law and social sciences in Florence.<ref name=gcf20/> Following the start of World War I he was enlisted in the army and was later promoted to the rank of lieutenant.<ref name=gcf20>{{cite news |author=Giancarlo Fioretti|title=Dino Philipson: le peripezie di un liberale scomodo|url=http://www.valdinievoleoggi.it/a81936-dino-philipson-le-peripezie-di-un-liberale-scomodo.html|access-date=22 January 2022|work=Valdinievole Oggi|date=3 April 2020|language=it}}</ref>
==Career and activities== In 1919 Philipson became the president of the Pistoia section of the National Combatants and Veterans Association.<ref name=gcf20/> The same year he was elected as a deputy from Florence on the list called Liberal Concentration.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Record of events|journal=American Jewish Year Book|year=1920|volume=22|issue=5681|page=229|jstor=23601106}}</ref> In the 1921 elections he was also elected to the Parliament from the National Bloc.<ref name=gcf20/> Later he joined the Liberal Democratic Union.<ref name=gcf20/> When the Kingdom of Italy totally became under the Fascist rule from 1922 Philipson left the country for Paris, France.<ref name=gcf20/> There he had connections with the liberal and moderate anti-Fascism movements.<ref name=gcf20/>
Philipson returned to Italy in the mid-1930s. He and Eugenio Coloroni were arrested by the OVRA (Italian secret police) in October 1938.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jews arrested|access-date=22 January 2022|work=The Argus|date=18 October 1938 |location=Rome|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12514172|page=11}}</ref> Philipson detained in the Tremiti Islands for three years and then, was transferred to Sala Consilina and Eboli in southern Campania.<ref name=gcf20/> After the fall of the Fascist rule he was freed and was appointed undersecretary to Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio in February 1944,<ref>{{cite web|title=Governo Badoglio|url=https://www.governo.it/it/i-governi-dal-1943-ad-oggi/ordinamento-provvisorio-25-luglio-1943-23-maggio-1948-assemblea-8|publisher=Governo Italiano|access-date=22 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> but his term was very brief and ended in April 1944.<ref>{{cite web|title=Badoglio: "Sparare a vista contro i dimostranti"|access-date=22 January 2022|publisher=Associazione Nazionale Combattenti |url=https://www.combattentiliberazione.it/badoglio-sparare-a-vista-contro-i-dimostranti|language=it}}</ref> Next Philipson was appointed member of the National Council, the forerunner of the Italian Parliament.<ref name=gcf20/> He retired from politics and devoted himself to his legal profession and freemasonry.<ref name=gcf20/>
Philipson died in Pistoia in 1972.<ref name=gcf20/>
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