Alberico Albricci

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Alberico Albricci

Alberico Giuseppe Albricci (born December 6, 1864 in Gallarate , Italy , † April 2, 1936 in Rome ) was an Italian general in World War I , senator of the kingdom and minister of war under the first Nitti government .

Life

Albricci came from an old Lombard noble family. At the age of 15 he attended the cadet school in Milan before he switched to the military academy in 1882 , which he left in 1886 as a lieutenant in the artillery.

From 1888 to 1889 he took part in the Eritrea War as a first lieutenant . In 1908 he commanded a battalion during relief efforts after the Messina earthquake . From 1909 on, meanwhile he had been promoted to major, he was a member of the Italian General Staff . In 1910 he was made an honorary field adjutant to the Italian King Viktor Emanuel III. appointed. The latter ennobled him in 1913 with the title of Conte . Between 1910 and 1915 he also served as a military attaché in Vienna . When Italy entered the war in May 1915, he was in command of the operations office of the High Command of the Italian Army. In the spring of 1916 he took over command of the Basilicata infantry brigade for a short time as a colonel before he contributed to the defense of the Austro-Hungarian offensive as chief of staff of the 1st Army during the Austro-Hungarian spring offensive in 1916 . In July 1916 he was promoted to major general.

Albricci second from right at the conferral of Marshal's baton to General Pétain in December 1918 in Metz , from left to right: Marshal Joffre , Marshal Foch , Field Marshall Haig , General Pershing , General Gillain , General Albricci and General Haller

In 1917 Albricci took over the 5th Italian Division, which was deployed on the Adamello Front. Under his command in June 1917 the conquest of the 3,406 m high Corno di Cavento succeeded . During the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo he commanded the 2nd Italian Corps, which he led from Monte Santo near Gorizia to over the Piave to Montello, where he was able to stop further advances by the German-Austrian troops.

In April 1918 he was transferred to the Western Front with the II Corps . The troops sent to France in the course of the German spring offensives , around 25,000 men, were deployed in the Bligny area and were subordinate to the 5th French Army under General Henri Berthelot . They had been sent to the Western Front in exchange for the military aid given by the French after the collapse of the Italian front during the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.

In June 1918, Albricci was promoted to lieutenant general. After defending against the last German offensive during the second battle of the Marne, the II. Corps under Albricci remained on the western front, took part in the subsequent hundred-day offensive in the reconquest of the Chemin des Dames and advanced as far as the Moselle until the end of the war .

In June 1919 he was appointed Minister of War under Prime Minister Francesco Saverio Nitti at the suggestion of the Chief of Staff Armando Diaz . A month later he was appointed senator. As Minister of War, he worked with Nitti in the demobilization of the Italian armed forces . He also participated in the controversial amnesty law against deserters of the First World War and, together with Diaz, advocated a harsher interpretation than that desired by Justice Minister Ludovico Mortara . In March 1920 he resigned from his position as Minister of War after differences with Prime Minister Nitti over an army reform he initiated in November 1919. After his resignation, he took over command duties in the Italian army again until his retirement from active service in 1932. After his retirement he was appointed Minister of State without portfolio for his services. In 1933 he joined the Fascist Party .

Albricci died on April 2, 1936 in Rome. He was the bearer of the Order of the Crown of Italy ( Grand Cross ), the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus (Grand Cross), of the Military Order of Savoy ( Grand Officer ), member of the Legion of Honor (Grand Officer) and honorary citizen of the city of Épernay . His grave is in the mausoleum of the Faccanoni family in Sarnico on Lake Iseo .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albricci in the Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde (Italian) accessed on July 24, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Personal file of the Italian Senate (Italian) (PDF; 38 MB) accessed on July 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Manuel Galbiati, Giorgio Seccia: Dizionario biografico della Grande Guerra vol . 1 p. 20
  4. ↑ Manuel Galbiati, Giorgio Seccia: Dizionario biografico della Grande Guerra vol . 1 pp. 21-22
  5. ^ Giampiero Carocci:  Alberico Albricci. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
  6. ^ Italian Army Reforms of the 1920s (Italian), accessed on July 30, 2018
  7. ^ Alberico Albricci on the website of the Italian Senate (Italian). Retrieved July 24, 2018
  8. ↑ Mausoleum of Faccanoni family (Italian) accessed on 25 July 2018
predecessor Office successor

Giovanni Sechi 		Italian Minister of War
June 24, 1919 - March 13, 1920
Ivanoe Bonomi
personal data
SURNAME Albricci, Alberico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albricci, Alberico Giuseppe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallarate , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1936
Place of death Rome , Italy