In 1946, amid difficulties in the company's decision-making, Valletta was recalled and nominated as the company's president. In his work about the Italian resistance, Sergio Favretto's book argues that Fiat was actively involved alongside the resistance the company supplied vehicles and petrol, made large sums available to support the movement, and collaborated in the sabotage of war production in its own plants. While they shared mutual benefits in the field of war orders, Fiat always maintained a line of independence from the Fascist regime's totalitarian aspirations. In the upheavals that followed the collapse of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime, Valletta found himself expelled from the company by the powerful trade unions that considered that he had been sympathetic to the National Fascist Party regime he was later acquitted. Valletta became Fiat director in 1928 and the company's CEO in 1939. Valletta was known to the Italian fascist regime for his social democratic ideas, membership in Freemasonry, and clandestine connections with exiled anti-fascists in France, including the future president of the Italian Republic, Giuseppe Saragat, of whom he shared his reformist socialist views and was politically close to his post-war Italian Democratic Socialist Party. Giovanni Agnelli, the company's founder, sought him as accountant. As a result of his academic qualifications and background he was often known to colleagues and in the trade as "The Professor" ( Il Professore). Valletta was a lecturer in economics before he joined Fiat in April 1921. His mother was Teresa Quadrio from Valtellina who belonged to a family of minor nobility a prominent exponent of this family was the patriot Maurizio Quadrio. from 1946 to 1966.īorn at Sampierdarena near Genoa, he was the son of Federico Valletta, of Brindisi origin ( Palermo, 1856 – Turin, 1915), an officer of the Italian Royal Army and later an official in Turin of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane. Vittorio Valletta (28 July 1883 – 10 August 1967) was an Italian industrialist and president of Fiat S.p.A.
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