Luigi Rossi di Montelera

Luigi Rossi di Montelera (14 May 1946 – 15 November 2018) was an Italian company manager and politician from the Christian Democracy.

[1] On 14 November 1973, at the age of 27, Rossi di Montelera was kidnapped by a group of bandits of the Corleonesi Mafia clan, led by Luciano Leggio, and held as a prisoner in the bunker of a farmhouse in Treviglio, near Bergamo.

[3] From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the board of directors of the General Confederation of Italian Industry and from 2004 to 2008 president of the Piedmont division of Confindustria.

[1] Rossi di Montelera joined the Christian Democracy, with which he has been elected city councilor in Val della Torre and then to the Chamber of Deputies from 1976 to 1992.

[1] Rossi di Montelera died of a heart attack on 15 November 2018, at the age of 72, while he was in Aosta for a hunt.