Carlo Donat-Cattin

Carlo Donat-Cattin (26 June 1919 – 17 March 1991) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. A member of Christian Democracy, he was several times minister of the Italian Republic.

Biography

Donat-Cattin was born at Finale Ligure. His father was from Turin, where Donat-Cattin moved at a young age. During World War II he fought in the "White" (Christian-Democrat) faction of Italian resistance movement.

In 1950 he took part in the foundation of the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (Italian: Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori, abbreviated as CISL). In the meantime he entered Christian Democracy (Italian Democrazia Cristiana, shortly DC), for which he was communal counsellor in Turin and, from 1953, provincial counsellor at the province of Turin.

Donat-Cattin was elected for the first time to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1958, a position he held until 1979, when he was elected to the Italian Senate. He was minister several times, first as Minister of Welfare and Health (Rumor II, III, Colombo and Andreotti I Cabinets (1969-1972), then as Minister of Mezzogiorno (Rumor IV, 1973) and, from 1974 to 1978, Minister of Industry and Trade in four consecutive governments (Moro IV and V, Andreotti III and IV). Belonging to the left wing of the party, in 1978 he became vice-secretary of DC. Donat-Cattin was initially in favour of dialogue towards DC's historical rival, the Italian Communist Party (Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, or PCI), but after 1979 he became a supporter of the preambolo theory, which aimed to exclude PCI from any state charge. In 1980, however, after his son Marco was discovered to be a member of the far-left terrorist formation Prima Linea, he abandoned any public position and left politics for a while.

In 1986 he was chosen as Minister of Health in the second Bettino Craxi-led government. At the time, he became a firm advocate of collaboration between DC and Craxi's party, the Italian Socialist Party. In 1989 he was Minister of Welfare in the Andreotti VI government.

He died at Montecarlo in 1991.

Rumor II Cabinet (1969-1970)

Russo Forlani/Bo Gatto Moro Restivo Gava Caron Bosco E. Colombo Gui Aggradi Natali Sedati Gaspari Valsecchi Magrì Ripamonti Misasi V. Colombo Malfatti Donat-Cattin Scaglia

Rumor III Cabinet (March–August 1970)

Bosco/Russo Taviani Gatto Aggradi Ripamonti Gaspari Moro Restivo Reale Giolitti Preti Colombo Misasi Lauricella Natali Viglianesi Malfatti/Bosco Gava Mariotti Zagari Mannironi Piccoli Donat-Cattin Lupis

Colombo Cabinet (1970–1972)

Lupis Taviani Gatto Russo Ripamonti Gaspari Moro Restivo Reale/Colombo Giolitti Preti Aggradi Tanassi Misasi Lauricella Natali Viglianesi Bosco Gava Mariotti Zagari Mannironi/Attaguile Piccoli Donat-Cattin Matteotti

Andreotti I Cabinet (February 1972 – June 1972)

Caiati Gatto Sullo Gaspari Moro Rumor Gonella Taviani Pella Colombo Restivo Misasi Aggradi Natali Scalfaro Bosco Gava Valsecchi Ripamonti Cassiani Piccoli/Andreotti (interim) Donat-Cattin Scaglia

Rumor IV Cabinet (1973–1974)

Corona Ripamonti Lupis Coppo Donat-Cattin Toros Gioia Bucalossi Gava Moro Taviani Zagari Giolitti Colombo La Malfa Tanassi Malfatti Lauricella Ferrari Aggradi Preti Togni De Mita Gui Matteotti Pieraccini Gullotti Bertoldi Signorello

Andreotti III Cabinet (1976–1978)

De Mita Forlani Cossiga Bonifacio Morlino Pandolfi Stammati Lattanzio/Ruffini Malfatti Gullotti Marcora Ruffini/Lattanzio Colombo Donat-Cattin Dal Falco Ossola Colombo (interim) Bisaglia Anselmi Pedini Antoniozzi

Andreotti IV Cabinet (1978–1979)

De Mita Forlani Cossiga/Andreotti (interim)/Rognoni Bonifacio Morlino Malfatti Pandolfi Ruffini Pedini Stammati Marcora Colombo Gullotti Donat-Cattin/Prodi Anselmi Ossola Colombo (interim) Bisaglia Scotti Antoniozzi Pastorino

Craxi II Cabinet (1986–1987)

Forlani Vizzini Granelli Fabbri Zamberletti Gaspari De Vito Mammì Andreotti Scalfaro Rognoni Romita Visentini Goria Spadolini Falcucci Nicolazzi Pandolfi Signorile Gava Zanone Donat-Cattin Formica Degan Darida Gullotti De Michelis Capria De Lorenzo

Andreotti VI Cabinet (1989–1991)

Martelli Maccanico Iervolino Romita Lattanzio Gaspari Misasi Marongiu Conte Sterpa Gava De Michelis Scotti Vassalli Formica Cirino Pomicino Carli Martinazzoli Rognoni Mattarella Bianco Prandini Mannino Saccomandi Bernini Mammì Battaglia De Lorenzo Ruggiero Vizzini Fracanzani Piga Donat-Cattin Facchiano Carraro Tognoli Ruffolo Ruberti

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