Luca Pietromarchi

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Luca Pietromarchi (born March 18, 1895 in Rome , † July 2, 1978 there ) was an Italian diplomat .

Life

His son is Antonello Pietromarchi. Luca Pietromarchi entered the foreign service in 1923 and was Deputy Secretary of the Representation of the Italian Government to the League of Nations in Geneva from 1923 to 1930 . In 1931 he headed the Ufficio Società delle Nazioni . From 1932 he was employed in the office of Galeazzo Ciano . In 1935 he was a member of the Italian delegation at the conference on the Stresa Front . In 1936 he became Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . From 1936 to 1939 he headed the Ufficio Spagna , which diplomatically flanked the Italian intervention in the putsch of the Unión Militar Española . In 1940 he was promoted to the Ministre plénipotentiaire . Luca Pietromarchi headed the Gabinetto Armistizio e Pace (GABAP) as chairman of the Direzione Guerra Economica . The GABAP staged diplomacy for the governments of the First Slovak Republic , the Independent State of Croatia , Dalmatia , Montenegro and Greece , which were dependent on the Axis powers and whose territories were partially occupied. Pietromarchi's diary entries from this period show that he knew about the Holocaust at an early stage .

Luca Pietromarchi was instrumental in bringing about the Cassibile armistice , which came into force on September 3, 1943. Whereupon Operation Fall Axis was carried out on September 8, 1943 and Operation Eiche on September 23, 1943 . From October 1943 to March 1944 Pietromarchi hid in the Italian Social Republic with his sister Eleonora Attolico, Bernardo Attolico's wife . From 1947 Pietromarchi was the correspondent of L'Osservatore Romano in Brazil . In 1947 the government of Alcide De Gasperi overturned a judgment of the Alto Commissariato per l'Epurazione against him and Pietromarchi was again employed by the Ministerio degli Affari Esteri . From 1950 to 1958 he was ambassador to Ankara . From July 25, 1958 to May 5, 1961 he was ambassador to Moscow .

literature

  • Ruth Nattermann, I diari e le agende di Luca Pietromarchi (1938-1940). Politica estera del fascismo e vita quotidiana di un diplomatico romano del '900 (572 pp., 16 ills. B / w) Roma 2009. Ricerche dell'Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma 5.
  • The Soviet World, translated into English by LF Edwards, AS Barnes, 1966, 462 pp.
  • Stalinismo, krusciovismo e neo-Stalinismo in Rivista di studi politici internazionali: Volume 36 pages 320 to 330

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefano Baldi, Luca Pietromarchi
  2. ^ David Bankier, Israel Gutman, Nazi Europe and the Final Solution , p. 510
  3. ^ German Historical Institute Rome , Project Nattermann
predecessor Office successor
Carlo Galli Italian ambassador to Ankara
1950–1958 		Massimo Magistrati
Mario di Stefano Italian ambassador to Moscow
1958–1961 		Carlo Alberto Straneo
personal data
SURNAME Pietromarchi, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 1978
Place of death Rome