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Italian businessman
Ugo Gobbato
(
Volpago del Montello
, 16 July 1888 ?
Milan
, 28 April 1945) was an Italian engineer and Managing Director of
Alfa Romeo
1933 to 1945.
He studied in Germany where he graduated in mechanical engineering at the
Technical University
of
Zwickau
in
Saxony
. After having fulfilled his military service between 1915 and 1918,
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he was hired to
Fiat
becoming the first director of the
Lingotto
factory. From 1929 to 1931, followed by the construction Fiat factories in Germany and Spain and again in 1931, by direct appointment of Fiat founder and senator
Giovanni Agnelli
(1866?1945), he was entrusted with the construction of the factory in Moscow, a city where he lived for over two years.
He was back in Italy in 1933, and the government and the
Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale
(IRI) gave him the task of reorganizing
Alfa Romeo
which was facing bankruptcy. From 1938 he directed the development of a new factory in
Alfa Romeo Pomigliano d'Arco plant
outside
Naples
, bombed in 1943.
[2]
Back in Milan, he led the company until he was assassinated in Milan on 28 April 1945, immediately after the war.
[1]
He was followed as Alfa director by Pasquale Gallo (1887?1982).
Ugo married in 1916 to Dianella and was the father of racing driver
Pier Ugo Gobbato
(1918?2008).
[3]
References
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Literature
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- Marino Parolin,
Ugo Gobbato - La leggenda di un innovatore senza epoca
, Volpago del Montello, 2009 (see
gobbatougo.it
, the book's homepage)
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