Background
Born in Verona, he was the son of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of Fiat, and married Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte (1899–1945), a daughter of the Carlo del Monte, Prince di San Faustino and his Kentucky-born wife Jane Campbell.
Born in Verona, he was the son of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of Fiat, and married Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte (1899–1945), a daughter of the Carlo del Monte, Prince di San Faustino and his Kentucky-born wife Jane Campbell.
Agnelli had seven children:
Clara (b 1920, wife of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg, mother of Egon von Fürstenberg and Ira von Fürstenberg)
Gianni (1921–2003)
Susanna (1922–2009)
Maria Sole Agnelli (born 1925)
Cristiana (1927), wife of Count Brandolino Brandolini d"Adda
Giorgio Agnelli (1929–1965)
Umberto (1934–2004)
Agnelli"s oldest son Gianni Agnelli became the head of Fiat from 1966 to 2003 and made the company into the most important company in Italy and one of the major car builders of Europe. Agnelli"s daughter Susanna Agnelli is the first woman to have been Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy. President of Italian giants Juventus from 1923 to 1935, Agnelli was one of the most important men in the Old Lady"s history, and the one to whom cr can be given for transforming the Turin side into the most successful Italian football club
Agnelli died in a plane accident in Genoa, aged 43, when the seaplane he was traveling on accidentally hit a floating log and caused his head to fall into the still revolving propeller of the plane.