Lio Lenzi

Lio Lenzi
Lio Lenzi
Mayor of Grosseto
	In office; 17 June 1944 – 10 June 1951
Preceded by	Angelo Maestrini (podestà)
Succeeded by	Renato Pollini
Personal details
Born	November 13, 1898; Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Died	September 26, 1960 (aged 61); Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Political party	Italian Communist Party
Profession	glazier

Lio Lenzi (13 November 1898 – 26 September 1960) was an Italian politician.

He was the first Mayor of Grosseto elected after the fall of fascism and the establishment of the Republic of Italy.[1][2]

Biography

Lenzi was born in Livorno and participated at the foundation of the Italian Communist Party in 1921.[2] He joined the anti-fascist movement Arditi del Popolo opposing the National Fascist Party blackshirts.[2] Being persecuted after the establishment of the fascist government, Lenzi moved to Grosseto in 1926 where he started to work as glazier and kept promoting communist ideology in that city.[2][3] For this reason he was beaten and severely injured by the fascists in 1937.[2][4]

During World War II he joined the Resistance movement and established the Grosseto National Liberation Committee (CLN) in 1943 together with various local representatives of the other clandestine parties.[1][4][5]

After the Allied invasion of Italy, Lenzi was appointed Mayor of Grosseto by the CLN with the approval of the Allied forces led in Grosseto by colonel R.A.B. Hamilton on 17 June 1944.[1][5][6] He was confirmed Mayor of Grosseto on 27 March 1946 as the result of the first democratic elections held on 10 March.[1]

Bonifazi, Emilio (2015). Grosseto e i suoi amministratori dal 1944 al 2015. Grosseto. pp. 41–46.
"Note autobiografiche del primo sindaco di Grosseto, Lio Lenzi, scritte nel 1954 (AISGREC, Fondo Resistenza)". Toscana Novecento (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2019.
Bianciardi, Luciano (31 July 1952). "Nascita di uomini democratici". Belfagor. Florence.
Banchi, Aristeo (1993). Si va pel mondo. Grosseto: Arci. pp. 76, 104.
Chioccon, Francesco (1985). "Resistenza e alleati in provincia di Grosseto". In Nicla Capitini Maccabruni (ed.). La Maremma contro il nazi-fascismo. Grosseto: La Commerciale. pp. 63–71.
Luciana Rocchi. "La liberazione di Grosseto". Toscana Novecento (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2019.

Banchi, Aristeo (1993). Si va pel mondo. Grosseto: Arci.
Bonifazi, Emilio (2015). Grosseto e i suoi amministratori dal 1944 al 2015. Grosseto.
Capitini Maccabruni, Nicla (1985). La Maremma contro il nazi-fascismo. Grosseto: La Commerciale.

Luciana Rocchi. "La liberazione di Grosseto". Toscana Novecento (in Italian). Retrieved 30 October 2019.

Political offices
Preceded by Angelo Maestrini (podestà)	Mayor of Grosseto 1944–1951	Succeeded by Renato Pollini

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