Raimondo Ricci (13 April 1921 – 26 November 2013) was an Italian politician and partisan, President of National Association of Italian Partisans from 2009 to 2011.

Biography

In 1943, after the

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, Ricci decided to join the partisans, but after a few months he was arrested by the National Republican Guard, given to the

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and imprisoned in the

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. He was freed on 5 May 1945. Once he returned to Italy, Ricci graduated in Law and became a lawyer. He later became a city councilor in

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, elected with the

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and from 1969 he has been provincial President of

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. From 1976 to 1983, for two consecutive legislatures, Ricci has been a member of the

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, elected with the

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. In June 2002, Ricci went to

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

to testify in the trial against Friedrich Engel, responsible for the

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massacres in

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when he was commander of the German police in

. After having been President of

from 2009 to 2011, Ricci died in

on 26 November 2013, at the age of 92.

Electoral history

References

External links

*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ricci, Raimondo 1921 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Rome Italian partisans Italian Communist Party politicians 20th-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Fossoli camp survivors Mauthausen concentration camp survivors