Enrico Caviglia

Enrico Caviglia

Mausoleum of Enrico Caviglia in Finale Ligure

Enrico Caviglia (born May 4, 1862 in Finale Ligure , † March 22, 1945 ibid) was an Italian marshal and senator .

Life

Caviglia completed an officer training at the Military Academy in Turin . In 1883 he was promoted to lieutenant and then served in various artillery units . From 1904 to 1911 he was an Italian military attaché in Tokyo and Beijing . He served in Italian East Africa and took part in the Italo-Turkish War .

When the First World War broke out , Caviglia became a brigadier general and commanded the “Bari” infantry brigade on the lower Isonzo . In 1917 he conquered the Bainsizza plateau as a lieutenant general . In the Battle of Vittorio Veneto , he commanded the 8th Italian Army , which ultimately decided the battle at the end of October 1918.

Immediately after the end of the war, the British king awarded him the Order of the Bath . In Italy he became Senator on February 22, 1919 and Minister of War in the Orlando government . He solved the Fiume problem created by Gabriele d'Annunzio . On 25 June 1926 he was awarded by the fascist regime for his services in World War I the rank of Marshal of Italy . Caviglia lived relatively withdrawn in the years that followed because of his aversion to fascism . After the armistice of September 8, 1943, he took command in Rome and in negotiations with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring achieved the status of an " Open City " for the Italian capital . Shortly afterwards Caviglia died in his hometown Finale Ligure .

His tomb is in the Mausoleo di Enrico Caviglia on Capo San Donato, Finale Ligure .

literature

• Giorgio Rochat:  Caviglia, Enrico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 23:  Cavallucci-Cerretesi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.

Web links

• Entry in the Senatori dell'Italia liberale database of the Historical Archives of the Italian Senate