Luigi Lusignani

Luigi Lusignani (born March 3, 1896 in Vernasca , Piacenza Province , † September 27, 1943 in Corfu , Greece ) was an Italian colonel .

Life

Lusignani began his military career in 1914 at the Accademia Militare di Modena . He fought as captain of the 19th and 44th Infantry Regiments in World War I , for which he was awarded the War Merit Cross for his role in the battle of San Martino al Carso and the Austria-Hungary South Tyrol offensive in 1916 . He was from 1925 to 1927 with the XXVI. Eritrean Battalion in Tripolitania . Back in Italy, he attended the 58th course of the “Scuola di Guerra” from 1928 to 1931 and became commander of the military division of Piacenza. In 1933 he was promoted to major. Three years later he returned as commandant of the XLVI. Eritrean battalion returned to Libya and was then used in Eritrea ( Italian East Africa ). In 1938 he was transferred to the command of the General Staff Corps as a lieutenant colonel and finally made colonel in 1942.

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In November 1942 he became the commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the “Acqui” division in Corfu , which had been occupied by Italy since the Greco-Italian War . On September 8, 1943, after negotiations with the Wehrmacht High Command had failed, he refused to surrender dishonorably and organized the defense of the island with the help of the Greek partisans of the Papas Spiru . However, the Badoglio government did not send the promised aid, so that Lusignani, without receiving further orders, was overwhelmed by attacks by the Wehrmacht after twelve days and taken prisoner on September 25th. He was shot together with his officers in the old fortress Angelokastro in the city of Corfu. On the orders of Hubert Lanz, the bodies of the officers were "taken out to sea by ship and sunk weighted down in several places". The body was never found.

A street and a barracks in Piacenza and a street in Genoa are named after Lusignani.

literature

• Comando del Corpo di Stato Maggiore, Gli Ufficiali del Corpo di Stato Maggiore caduti in guerra , Comando del Corpo di Stato Maggiore, Roma, 1954.
• Giovanni Pampaloni, Resa a Corfù , Nardini, Firenze, 1976.
• Paolo Paoletti, I traditi di Corfù. Quel tragico 1943 , Genova, Fratelli Frilli, 2003, ISBN 88-87923-91-4 .
• Γιωργου Α.Αθανασαινα, ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΗΣ 1943 , ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ– Σ. Παρικου & ΣΙΑ Ε.Ε, 1996, ISBN 960-319-081-0 .
• Hannes Heer, Klaus Naumann (ed.): War of extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941–1944, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-04-2 , pp. 195f.