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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name              =  Alcide De Gasperi
| image             = De_Gasperi.JPG
| order           = Interim <br> [[President of the Italian Republic]]
| term_start	= [[June 12]], [[1946]]
| term_end	= [[July 1]], [[1946]]
| predecessor	= King [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| successor          = [[Enrico De Nicola]] 
(contracted; show full)vince of Trento]] in [[Italy]]. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in [[Vienna]], where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired by the [[Rerum Novarum]] [[encyclical]] issued by [[Pope Leo XIII]] in 1891. In 1904 he took an active part in the student demonstrations in favour of an Italian
-language university. Imprisoned with other protesters during the inauguration of the Italian juridical faculty in [[Innsbruck]], he was released after twenty days. In 1905, De Gasperi obtained a degree in [[philology]].

In 1905 he began to work as editor of the newspaper ''La Voce Cattolica'' which was replaced in September 1906 by ''Il Trentino'', and after a short time he became its editor. In his newspaper he often took positions in favour of a cultural [[autonomy]] for [[Welschtirol]] and in defence of Italian culture in Trentino, in contrast to the [[Germanisation]] plans of the German radical nationalists in [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]]. However, he never questioned whether or not Trentino should belong to Austria–Hungary and claimed that, in the case of a referendum, 90% of the Trentino would choose the emperornevertheless choose the popular Austrian emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] over the Italian motherland. 

In 1911 he became a [[Member of Parliament]] for the Popular Political Union of Trentine ([[Italian Language|Italian]]: ''Unione Politica Popolare del Trentino'' - UPPT) in the [[Austria]]n [[Reichsrat (Austria)|Reichsrat]], a post he held for 6 years. He was politically neutral during [[World War I]], which he spent in [[Vienna]]. However, he sympathized with the ultimately unsuccesful efforts of [[pope Benedict XV]] (1914-1922) and [[beatification|Bl.]] [[Karl I of Austria]] to obtain a honourable peace and stop the war and mass warfare. When his home region was transferred to Italy in the post-war settlement, he tookaccepted Italian citizenship.  

===Opposing Fascism===
In 1919 he was among of the founders of the [[Italian People's Party (1919-1926)|Italian People's Party]] ([[Italian Language|Italian]]: ''Partito Popolare Italiano'' - PPI), with Don [[Luigi Sturzo]]. He served as a deputy in the Italian Parliament from 1921 to 1924, a period marked by the rise of [[Italian fascism|Fascism]]. He initially supported the participation of the PPI in [[Benito Mussolini]]’s first government in October 1922.

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