Command of the Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe
The command of the Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe ( Commander Naval Forces Southern Europe , COMNAVSOUTH) is a military department of NATO .
history
It emerged as an independent headquarters on June 4, 1967 from the dissolution of the Allied Forces Mediterranean headquarters , a NATO structure that was in command of maritime operations in the Mediterranean and Black Seas . The Allied Naval Forces Southern Europe were part of the Allied Forces South Europe from 1951 to 2004 .
Today the Command Component Maritime Naples (CC Mar) is subordinate to the Allied Joint Force Command Naples . The headquarters was established on a British military base in Malta . Dom Mintoff was elected Prime Minister of Malta in 1971. In the stationing agreement of March 1972, Warsaw Pact ships were allowed to use Maltese ports. As a result, the headquarters were moved to Nisida in late 1974 .
Commanding
| Received command | admiral | Remarks | Command given |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th June 1967 | Luciano Sotgui | 3rd July 1969 | |
| 4th July 1969 | Giuseppe Roselli Lorenzini | (* March 17, 1910) | Oct 20, 1970 |
| Oct 21, 1970 | Gino Birindelli | March 23, 1972 | |
| March 24, 1972 | Giuseppe Pighini | March 27, 1974 | |
| March 28, 1974 | Giovanni Ciccolo | June 11th 1975 | |
| June 12, 1975 | Luigi Tomasuolo | June 29, 1977 | |
| July 30, 1977 | Aldo Baldini | Jan. 30, 1979 | |
| Jan. 31, 1979 | Mario Bini | Jan. 27, 1980 | |
| Jan. 28, 1980 | Angelo Monassi | (* December 18, 1920 in Bellagio (Como), † November 20, 2000 in Rome) | Oct. 5, 1981 |
| Oct 6, 1981 | Giuseppe Di Giovanni | Oct. 20, 1984 | |
| Oct 21, 1984 | Giasone Piccioni | Dec. 19, 1985 | |
| Dec 20, 1985 | Cesare Pellini | Feb. 15, 1987 | |
| Feb 16, 1987 | Sergio Majoli | (* November 27, 1926 in Naples) | Sep 11 1988 |
| Sep 12 1988 | Filippo Ruggiero | Jan. 10, 1990 | |
| Jan. 11, 1990 | Giuseppe Spinozzi | Feb. 18, 2000 | |
| Feb. 18, 2000 | Luigi Lillo | Nov 1, 2002 | |
| Nov 1, 2002 | Ferdinado Sanfelice di Monteforte |
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel J. Sokolsky, Seapower in the nuclear age: the United States Navy and NATO, 1949-80 , 1991, 221 pp., 11
- ↑ manp.nato.int ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. manp.nato.int ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Giuseppe Pighini
- ↑ Angelo Monassi
- ↑ Sergio Majoli
