Luigi Parrilli

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Luigi Parrilli (born March 16, 1890 in Naples , † March 26, 1954 in Amsterdam ) was an Italian nobleman and industrialist. In the run-up to the German surrender negotiations with the Allies in Italy in spring 1945, he acted in Switzerland in Operation Sunrise as a negotiator between the highest SS and police chief in Italy and the US military intelligence service OSS .

Life

Luigi Parrilli came from a Neapolitan noble family. His father, Baron Giuseppe Parrilli, was a naval officer. Luigi studied at the University of St. Gallen . He then worked at the Schmidt Institute . In 1918 he was called up as a lieutenant in the Italian army for the infantry, but did not take part in the First World War. He is said to have lost his fortune at the gaming table .

From 1925 he was a representative for » Nash Motors « and later sold » Kelvinator « refrigerators . In 1934 he married Luisa Poss from Verbania , the daughter of Alessandro Poss , the owner of the Cotonificio Poss (cotton mill). From his Paris office he ran commercial activities in France and Belgium from 1937 to 1940. After the German occupation of Belgium and France , he moved his activities to Milan and his residence in the Villa Chiesa di Pegli near Genoa .

Luigi Parrilli was Guido Zimmer's informant . Zimmer introduced him to Karl Wolff . Parrilli received visas to enter Switzerland because his son attended the Institut Montana Zugerberg , which was founded and directed by Max Husmann . Max Husmann was in contact with Allen Welsh Dulles , Head of the Office of Strategic Services in Bern. Operation Sunrise was agreed in several meetings to prevent the Italian Communist Party from taking power . Guido Zimmer's diary entries show that Operation Wool preceded Operation Sunrise and made it easier. Wool may have been a reference to the cotton mill operated by Parrilli. In 1945 his wife Luisa was arrested in Genoa and released on the intervention of her father Alessandro Poss.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ray Moseley, Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce, 2004, p.174
  2. ↑ Annuario delle Camere di Commercio italiane all'estero 1942, p. 334
  3. ↑ that Zimmer's declassified files indicate that Operation Wool preceded and facilitated Operation Sunrise, cf. Katrin Paehler, The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg, s. 297 ; Lucerne officer and Zug school director helped to end the world war, July 19, 2018, [1] ; MAURIZIO DAL LAGO, FRANCO RASIA, GIORGIO TRIVELLI, Bombs Away !: Il bombardamento alleato sul Quartier generale, 2013, p. 18
  4. ↑ Marino Viganò, Dominic M. Pedrazzini, "Operation Sunrise": atti del convegno internazionale, 2006, p. 300 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Parrilli, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian industrialist and negotiator in Operation Sunrise
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1954
Place of death Amsterdam