Giuseppe Petrilli

{{Short description|Italian professor and European Commissioner}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Giuseppe Petrilli | image = Pertini Petrilli cropped.png | office = [[European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion|European Commissioner for Social Affairs]] | president = [[Walter Hallstein]] | term_start = 7 January 1958 | term_end = 8 February 1961 | predecessor = Position established | successor = [[Lionello Levi Sandri]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|3|13|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Naples]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1999|5|13|1913|3|13|df=y}} | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | party = [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] | caption = Petrilli in 1969 }} '''Giuseppe Petrilli''' (13 March 1913 – 13 May 1999) was an Italian professor and [[European Commissioner]].

He was a non-politician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/71.pdf |archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20060330120000/http://www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/71.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2006 |format=PDF |title=Analysis of Political Experience of Commission Membership |website=cps.org.uk }}</ref> appointed as the first Italian European Commissioner on the [[Hallstein Commission]] from January 1958 with responsibility for the Social Affairs portfolio. In September 1960 (or December 1960, or 8 February 1961) he resigned and was succeeded by [[Lionello Levi Sandri]].

A professor, Giuseppe Petrilli became president of IRI (the Italian Institute for Industrial Reconstruction – a powerful state-owned holding company) in 1960 and served for almost twenty years, until 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww1.lapadania.com/?subid1=5428b0be-c33d-11e9-b352-26f3a5f9e4c5|title=lapadania.com|website=ww1.lapadania.com|accessdate=20 August 2019}}</ref> He died on 13 May 1999, aged 86.

Commissioner Petrilli was a member of the 1979 group that produced the Spierenburg Report on the improvement of the working methods of the commission.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/the_spierenburg_report-en-0b42bbaf-7770-4127-8421-da0edc9f49fe.html|title=The Spierenburg Report|date=7 August 2016|website=CVCE.EU by UNI.LU|accessdate=20 August 2019}}</ref>

A Giuseppe Petrilli, left-wing [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Italian Christian Democrat]] (DC) member was appointed secretary general of the "EUCD" in 1978, according to the [[European Peoples Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epp-eu.org/subsubpagina.php?hoofdmenuID=1&submenuID=3&subsubmenuID=9|title=Homepage - www.epp-eu.org|work=epp-eu.org}}</ref>

A Giuseppe Petrelli became a member of the 8th [[Italian Senate]] after the [[1979 Italian general election|1979 elections]].

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category-inline}} * {{official website|http://www.epp-eu.org}} * [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20060330120000/http://www.cps.org.uk/pdf/pub/71.pdf PDF Analysis of Political Experience of Commission Membership] * [http://old.lapadania.com/2000/giugno/28/28062000p11a1.htm IRI History (Italian)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311112808/http://old.lapadania.com/2000/giugno/28/28062000p11a1.htm |date=11 March 2007 }} * [http://www.cvce.eu/collections/unit-content/-/unit/en/02bb76df-d066-4c08-a58a-d4686a3e68ff/8e5dfa57-8b52-4862-8d45-ecef86981114 Historical events in the European integration process 1945–2009: Institutional Reform: The Spierenburg Report] on CVCE website * {{in lang|it}} [[:it:Senatori VIII Legislatura|it.wiki – List of 7th Senate members]]

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-new|rows=2|office}} {{s-ttl|title=[[List of European Commissioners by nationality#Italy|Italian European Commissioner]]|years=1958–1961|alongside=[[Piero Malvestiti]]}} {{s-aft|rows=2|after=[[Lionello Levi Sandri]]}} |- {{s-ttl|title=[[European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion|European Commissioner for Social Affairs]]|years=1958–1961}} {{s-end}}

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