Quinto Quintieri (12 August 1894 – 23 December 1968) was an Italian engineer and banker. He briefly served as the minister of treasury and finance in 1944 shortly after the end of the Fascist rule in Italy.

Early years and education

Quintieri was born in

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on 12 August 1894. His family were from Carolei, a village in the Cosentino area. His father was a landowner and an academic who was the cofounder of the Bank of Calabria. He had four sisters. He received a degree in engineering from the

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. Quintieri worked as a military instructor at the Academy of Turin during his studies in the period of

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Career and activities

Following his graduation he worked at the Bank of Calabria and became its president after the death of his father. He was appointed minister of treasury and finance in the second Badoglio cabinet which lasted only 47 days between 22 April 1944 and 8 June 1944. He was one of the three Calabrian representatives in the government. The others were Fausto Gullo and Pietro Mancini. Quintieri started a newspaper entitled ''Il Giornale'' which folded in 1957 and a weekly ''La Libertà'' in June 1944. In 1944 he and another banker Raffaele Mattioli were assigned by

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Ivanoe Bonomi as the head of the Italian delegate which visited the USA for the potential economic support. In 1946, Quintieri was elected as a member to the Constituent Assembly for the Italian Liberal Party. He served there between 25 June 1946 and 31 January 1948. The assembly had the task of creating the Italian Constitution. After retiring from politics in 1948 Quintieri resumed his post at the Bank of Calabria. He also became vice-president of Confindustria in 1949 and then president of the Union of Industrialists which included representations from the six countries of the

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Personal life and death

Quintieri settled in Switzerland in 1957. He remained unmarried and died in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23 December 1968.

Honors

Quintieri was awarded the Knights of Labor in 1958.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quintieri, Quinto 20th-century Italian businesspeople 20th-century Italian engineers 20th-century newspaper founders 1894 births 1968 deaths Ministers of finance of Italy Italian newspaper founders People from Sorrento Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Italian expatriates in Switzerland University of Naples Federico II alumni Italian bankers Italian Liberal Party politicians