Manfredi Gravina

Manfredi Gravina ( Italian Manfredi Conte di Ramacca Gravina ; born June 14, 1883 in Palermo , † September 19, 1932 in Danzig ) was an Italian count from the Sicilian princely house Gravina , naval officer, diplomat and high commissioner in the Free City of Danzig (1929– 1932). Gravina was the oldest child of the married couple Biagio and Blandine Gravina (born von Bülow). His mother was the second oldest daughter of Hans and Cosima von Bülow (later Cosima Wagner ).

Memorial stele in Gdansk

Gravina served in the Italian Navy from 1900 and switched to the diplomatic service around 1905. From 1906 to 1907 he worked at the Italian agencies in Shanghai and Berlin . He took part in the First World War as an airplane pilot. From 1919 to 1922 Gravina served as an advisor in various Scandinavian countries until he became a delegate to the League of Nations from 1924 . From 1929 to 1932 Gravina was High Commissioner of the League of Nations in charge of the Free City of Danzig .

On May 3, 1922 Gravina married Maria Sofia Giustiniani-Bandinia. Gravina died unexpectedly of colon cancer in Danzig on September 19, 1932 and was temporarily buried three days later in the local St. Albrecht cemetery; a little later the body was transferred to Italy.

literature

• Oliver Hilmes : Cosima's children. Triumph and tragedy of the Wagner dynasty. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-899-1 .

Web links

• Manfredi Gravina in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Newspaper article about Manfredi Gravina in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .