Umberto Agnelli

Umberto Agnelli  link (Businessman, politician)
File:Umberto Agnelli (1970).jpg Umberto Agnelli in 1970
Born	1 November 1934 Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	27 May 2004 Piedmont, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Catania
Parents	Edoardo Agnelli, Virginia Bourbon del Monte
Children	Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, Andrea Agnelli, Anna Agnelli
Spouse	Antonella Bechi Piaggio
Party	Christian Democracy
Relatives	Egon von Fürstenberg
Italian agnelli family magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee.

Umberto Agnelli was an Italian business magnate. He was the younger brother of deep politician Gianni Agnelli, both of the industrialist Agnelli family which has dominated Italy for a century. Umberto was on the Bilderberg Steering committee and numerous other deep state connections, including the 1001 Club.

Early life

Agnelli was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1 November 1934, as the youngest of seven children. After the premature deaths of his parents, Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia Bourbon del Monte in two unrelated accidents^[really?], he was raised by his older brother Gianni Agnelli.

He graduated in law at the University of Catania. Like his brother and his grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli, who cofounded Fiat S.p.A. in 1899, he also carried out his military service at the Pinerolo Cavalry Application School.

Career

Agnelli was chairman of Fiat France from 1965 to 1980, chief executive officer of Fiat from 1970 to 1976 and its vice president from 1976 to 1993. He was chairman of Fiat Auto from 1980 to 1990, and was a member of the International Advisory Board from 1993 to 2004. He was also chairman of Juventus between 1956 and 1961 and was honorary chairman from 1970 to 2004.

Starting in the 1980s and accelerating into the 1990s, when the company was struggling, Agnelli was the architect of Fiat's diversification. The Fiat Group controlled several Italian newspapers and publishers in addition to the Fiat car firms and Juventus.

Politics

Politically, the Agnelli family sought to create a "non-ideological" political formation of Atlanticist and pro-European persuasion that sought a modernising, internationalist capitalism in contrast to the left and opposed to the populist, nationalist, or fascist right. In the 1970s, Agnelli was elected a member of the Senate of the Republic for Christian Democracy (DC). This came after the DC won over a struggle in which Gianni Agnelli would be present in the Italian Republican Party list for the 1976 Italian general election, a move that could have cost them about one million votes. In turn, the DC obtained the candidacy of Agnelli as a senator, a position he held until 1979. He took his role seriously, and he held a conference of DC senators in Rome to discuss the renewal of the party; in response, he was admonished.