Leo Biaggi de Blasys

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Leo Biaggi de Blasys (* 1906 in Genoa; † November 15, 1979 in Escalona near Toledo ) was a Swiss sugar manufacturer and sports official.

Life

Adolf Eichmann's Red Cross ID, issued under the cover name Riccardo Klement and signed by Leo Biaggi de Blasys

The family of Leo Biaggi de Blasys comes from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and lived mostly in Genoa since the 1930s. Leo Biaggi de Blasys also served as the International Red Cross delegate for Italy from 1943 to 1976. Leo and his father Giovanni, the Swiss consul in Genoa, repeatedly helped persecuted Jews from 1943 to 1945.

Through the mediation of Valerio Benuzzi, Walter Rauff's confidante , the ICRC delegate for Northern Italy, Hans Bon , met Karl Wolff (SS member) , Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster and Rudolf Rahn in January 1945 . Negotiations about the visit of the Bolzano transit camp by the ICRC were initially positive, and the liberation of the Jews from the Bolzano concentration camp was discussed. However, because of the illness of delegates Bon and Biaggi de Blasys, the visit to the concentration camp did not take place. As an ICRC delegate, Leo apparently also participated in the escape of several prominent Nazis.

In 1959 he was chairman of the Federation-Internationale-Tir-Armes-Sportives-Chasse (Association of Hunting Shooters). He brought his SPICA-YAUIS to the Sindicato nazionale zuccerifici and in 1961 bought the royal hunt in the Coto de Doñana for 14 million pesetas . On June 21, 1961 he was decorated with the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Order of Merit of the Italian Republic) and in March 1974 with the ICRC silver medal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABC , 1980/11/15. Primer aniversario
  2. ^ A. Stille Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism 1991, p. 260
  3. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 179 kB) p. 20 FN 131@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.julius-lewy-foundation.com  
  4. ↑ Gerald Steinacher Nazis on the run: How war criminals escaped overseas via Italy, 2008, p. 310, 313f.
  5. ^ ABC, May 16, 1959 - Luto en el Carambolo
  6. ↑ legislature.camera.it L'Industria saccarifera in Italia (PDF; 885 kB), p. 204.
  7. ↑ Doñana: A Royal Hunting Ground ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.discoveringdonana.com
  8. ^ Dettaglio decorato Biaggi de Blasys Dott. Leo
  9. ↑ International review of the red cross (PDF; 2.7 MB) Analytical In dex 1961–1974.
personal data
SURNAME Blasys, Leo Biaggi de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sugar manufacturer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1979
Place of death Escalona near Toledo