Cesare Amè
Cesare Amè (born November 18, 1892 in Cumiana , † June 30, 1983 in Rome ) was an Italian general .
Life
After training at the Military Academy in Modena , Amè became a career officer. During the First World War , he fought at Col di Lana , followed by a training course for staff officers in Padua . He then became a liaison officer in the staff of the 25th Division, where he stayed until Caporetto . During the Piave battles he was one of the reconnaissance men under the command of Giovanni Messe . After the battle of Vittorio Venetohe commanded a division of armored vehicles to pursue the retreating Austrian troops. After the end of the war he was transferred to Rome and after further training at the war school in Turin he was recommended to the military intelligence service, passed the admission test with a study on the Vatican and the wars based on archival sources and entered the SIM in 1921 ( it. Servizio Informazioni Militare ), the army's intelligence service . Longer assignments abroad took him to Vienna and Budapest under the guise of an employee of the Italian tourist office ENIT . In 1927 he became tenente colonello , in 1929 he left the intelligence service to do the prescribed service hours in the command of combat troops, which he spent in Perugia from 1930 to 1934 . From 1933 to 1935 he taught history of the land forces at the Accademia Aeronautica in Caserta . After being promoted to colonel in 1937, he first commanded an infantry regiment, then became chief of staff of the Legnano infantry division and then of the XI. To become army corps. At the beginning of January 1940, Giacomo Carboni returned to the intelligence service as deputy to take over the management of the SIM after Carboni's resignation on September 20 of that year. In 1942 Amè was appointed brigadier general.
After the fall of Mussolini , of whom he was not informed prematurely, Amè was deposed on August 18, 1943 by Pietro Badoglio and replaced by his predecessor Carboni. Amè no longer took up the division command assigned to him, as he knew of the impending armistice .
Works
- Guerra segreta in Italia, 1940–1943 , 1956.
- Il Servizio informazioni militare dalla sua costituzione alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale , 1957.
literature
- Giuseppe De Lutiis: Amè, Cesare. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 34: Primo supplemento AC. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antonella Colonna Vilasi: The History of the Italian Secret Services . ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
- ↑ Peter Tompkins: Treason in Italian: "Italy's exit from the Second World War" , Molden, 1967, p. 89. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amè, Cesare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian general; Head of the Military Intelligence Service (1940–1943) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cumiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1983 |
| Place of death | Rome |