Bruno Franceschini

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Bruno Franceschini (born January 2, 1894 in Tres , Nonstal , then Tyrol , Austria-Hungary , today Trentino , Italy , † August 30, 1970 in Vienna ) was an Austro-Hungarian ensign and engineer .

Life

The capture of Battisti and Filzi on Monte Corno in a picture by the war painter Hans Bertle ( Tyrolean State Museum )

Franceschini grew up in the Italian-speaking part of Tyrol ( Welschtirol ). After attending the secondary school in Rovereto , where his father also taught, Franceschini was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army when the First World War broke out . As an ensign he served in the Imperial and Royal Landess Rifle Regiment "Trient" No. I initially on the Eastern Front . After the Italian entry into the war in May 1915, he and the regiment were transferred to the Italian front.

Franceschini was at the capture of the Trentino and Istria and Austria-Hungary originating Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi on 10 July 1916, the Monte Corno (today Monte Corno Battisti ) on Pasubio present, after their capture for 48 hours treason for Sentenced to death and executed immediately after the conviction by the Viennese executioner Josef Lang in the northern moat of the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento on the choke barge . The Austrian case files show that he identified Fabio Filzi, who was serving as a volunteer in the Italian army under a false name.

After the end of the war, he moved to Vienna in 1919 and studied engineering at the Technical University of Vienna . In the 1920s and 1930s, he avoided traveling to fascist Italy because of his alleged involvement in the capture of Battisti and fear of capture . He died in Vienna in 1970.

As with Battisti, Franceschini's figure was abused, albeit to a much lesser extent, during and after fascism. Because of his Italian origins, he was considered a traitor to the Battisti and Filzi, who were stylized as "heroes" by the fascists.

On the other hand, he was wrongly assigned an active role in the arrest of the "traitor" Battistis. On various anniversaries, the figure of Franceschini was repeatedly discussed in the party world in Trentino.

literature

  • Enrico Acerbi: Le troupe da montagna dell'esercito austro-ungarico nella Grande Guerra 1914-1918 , Gino Rossato Editore, 1991.
  • Archivio di Stato di Trento e Società di studi per la Venezia Tridentina (a cura di): Atti dei processi Battisti Filzi Chiesa , Trento, TEMI 1935
  • Cesare Veronesi: Dopo sessant'anni la verità sulla cattura di Cesare Battisti e la riabilitazione del cadetto Bruno Franceschini presunto delatore del martire trentino in: I Quattro Vicariati e le zone limitrofe, Anno 20, No. 2 (Dec. 1976), Ala, 1976 pp. 91-99.
  • Giuseppe M. Gottardi: Eroi o traditori: I soldati trentini nella Prima guerra mondiale , Rovereto, Osiride 2007, ISBN 978-88-7498-087-1 .
  • Bernhard Wurzer: Tyrol's heroic days. Innsbruck 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trial file file number 1796 / 16–1 in the original and in the Italian translation published 1935 (PDF; 88 MB), accessed on October 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Cesare Veronesi: Dopo sessant'anni la verità sulla cattura di Cesare Battisti e la riabilitazione del cadetto Bruno Franceschini presunto delatore del martire trentino p. 99
  3. ↑ Cesare Battisti e Franceschini, il non-rinnegato Gruppo editoriale L'Espresso of March 9, 2012 (in Italian), accessed on October 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Battisti era un disertore, battaglia su facebook online edition Il Trentino of July 11, 2014 (in Italian) accessed on October 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Franceschini, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian ensign
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Tres , Nonstal , then the prince of Tyrol , today Trentino
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1970
Place of death Vienna