Carlo Galli (diplomat)
Carlo Galli (born November 25, 1878 in Florence , † January 12, 1966 in Venice ) was an Italian diplomat .
Life
Carlo Galli was the son of Clotilde Lucich and Emilio Galli. He studied law at the University of Florence . In 1904 he entered the foreign service and became Vice Consul in Trieste, Austria-Hungary . In June 1911, as consul in Tripoli in the Ottoman Empire , he prepared the invasion of Italian Libya . In 1914 he was consul general in Trieste, where the registry office accused him of issuing Italian passports to supporters of Italian irredentism . In 1915 he was employed in the Foreign Ministry .
From January 1919 to December 1922 he was a member of the Italian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . In 1922 he was a delegation counselor under Carlo Sforza at the embassy in Paris . From January 1923 to April 1924 he was Consul General in Damascus under the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon . From September 1924 to September 1926 he was envoy to Tehran . From November 1926 to May 1928 he was envoy in Lisbon . From June 1928 to December 1934 he was envoy to Belgrade in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . From January 1935 to June 1938 he was envoy in Ankara . He was retired in June 1938 .
From 1939 to July 25, 1943 he sat on the board of directors of the Assicurazioni Generali under the patronage of Giuseppe Volpi . As such, he negotiated in Trieste, Zagreb and Bucharest in 1942 in the interests of the group .
On August 15, 1943, he assumed the leadership of the Ministry of Popular Culture in the government of Pietro Badoglio , which he exercised until September 3, 1943, the armistice of Cassibile .
After the Axis case , he lived in Nerviano in the house of his friend, the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. There he was arrested on February 24, 1944, interned in the Carcere di San Vittore in Milan , released, arrested again and interned in the camp near Lumezzane until April 1945.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Vento, In silenzio gioite e soffrite: storia dei servizi segreti italiani dal Risorgimento alla Guerra fredda , p. 379
- ^ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, GALLI, Carlo , Volume 51, 1998
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Italian consul general in Damascus 1923–1924 |
Luigi Silvestrelli | |
| Camillo Romano Avezzan |
Italian ambassador to Tehran 1924–1926 |
Guido Viola di Campalto |
| Livio Borghese |
Italian ambassador in Lisbon 1926–1928 |
Giuseppe Bastianini |
| Carlo Baroli |
Italian ambassador to Belgrade 1928–1934 |
Guido Viola di Campalto |
| Vincenzo Lojacono |
Italian envoy in Ankara 1935–1938 |
Luca Pietromarchi |
| Alessandro Pavolini | Head of the Ministry of Popular Culture August 15 to September 3, 1943 |
Giovanni Cuomo |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galli, Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1966 |
| Place of death | Venice |