Ettore Muti

Ettore Muti

Ettore Muti (born May 2, 1902 in Ravenna , Italy ; † August 24, 1943 in Fregene ) was an Italian fascist and military.

Life

When he was 15, Muti reported to the front with forged papers. He was also involved in the occupation of Fiume in 1919 by the Freischar of Gabriele D'Annunzio .

As a volunteer he took part in the war against Ethiopia as well as in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Franco .

From October 31, 1939 to October 30, 1940, Muti held the second highest office behind Mussolini as secretary of the Fascist Party .

In October 1940 he flew an attack against the Bahrain oil fields with an SM.82 . Despite visual damage (left eye from gasoline fumes and right eye from metal splinters from the First World War ), he then flew torpedo bomber missions, mostly as the 2nd pilot of his adjutant Major Paolo Moci, from Rhodes Gadurra .

He died under unexplained circumstances after Mussolini was deposed in 1943. After his death, he was transfigured into a hero in the Italian puppet government of Mussolini ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana - RSI ) in northern Italy, which was under German protection . The paramilitary unit named after him Legione Autonoma Ettore Muti (Autonomous Legion Ettore Muti) was a smaller task force that was mainly used against resistance fighters and partisans of the Resistancea in the Milan area.

literature

• Arrigo Petacco : Ammazzate quel fascista! Vita intrepida di Ettore Muti . Mondadori, Milan 2002. ISBN 978-88-04-50686-7 .
• Corrado Augias : I segreti di Roma. Storie, luoghi e personaggi di una capitale . Mondadori, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-04-56641-0 .
  • German: The secrets of Rome. Another story of the eternal city . Osburg Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940731-17-3 .
• Rhodes Gadurra. The nest of the Italian torpedo bombers in the East Aegean . In: JET & PROP , (2008), issue 1, page 42ff, ISSN  0942-461X

Web links

• Newspaper article about Ettore Muti in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .