Carlo Schanzer

Carlo Schanzer (1865 to 1953) was a Vienna-born Italian jurist and politician who held several cabinet posts from 1906 to 1922. The son of a Polish-born business lawyer and a pianist, he moved with his family to Milan and then Rome, received a bachelor's degree in law in November 1886 and took Italian citizenship in 1888. He became a member of the Council of State and then director general of the civil administration at the Ministry of the Interior, was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1900 and to the Senate in 1919. He was minister of posts in the third Giolitti cabinet from 1906 to 1909, minister of the treasury and then of finance in the first and second Nitti cabinets between 1919 and 1920, and minister of foreign affairs in the Facta cabinet from 25 February 1922. He was named minister of state in December 1928.