Luigi Silvestrelli

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Luigi Silvestrelli (born September 23, 1901 in Rome ; †) was an Italian diplomat .

Life

Luigi Silvestrelli was the son of Elisabetta Ziegler and Giulio Silvestrelli . He joined the foreign service in July 1925. From 1935 to 1936 he was first-class legation secretary in Prague . In 1938 he was first-class delegation secretary in Montevideo . On March 29 and 30, 1942, Silvestrelli was part of the entourage of Benito Mussolini from Vittorio Ambrosio , Antonio Gandin , Giuseppe Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo , Colonel Annibale Gallo (1894–1980), Colonel Jannuzzi, Captain Hausbrandt, private secretary Niccolo de Cesare, personal physician Arnaldo Pozzi, Guido Leto, ( Organizzazione di Vigilanza e Repressione dell'Antifascismo ), Giuseppe Stracca (Commander of the Italian Police) and Vincenzo Agnesina (Police Commissioner), who met in Schloss Kleßheim near Salzburg with Adolf Hitler , Hans Georg von Mackensen , Friedrich-Karl von Plehwe and Eugen Dollmann decided to attack Tobruk . From 1945 to 1948 he was First Class Secretary to Washington, DC From 1949 to 1950 he was Consul in Rio de Janeiro . In 1951 he was Ministre plénipotentiaire in Managua . From 1952 to January 1956 he was Consul General in Munich . From February 1956 to May 10, 1957 he was ambassador to Damascus .

From May 10, 1957 to August 17, 1961 he was ambassador to Prague . From December 1950 to 1968, Radio Praha , Oggi in Italia , broadcast a television program of migrants from the Italian Communist Party . On November 7, 1958, Sivestrelli handed a note to Jiří Hájek , in which a temporary suspension of the broadcast for a continuation of diplomatic relations between the governments of Czechoslovakia and Italy was put into the room. Luigi Silvestrelli was awarded the Grand Officer 's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on June 2, 1961 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Santi Corvaja, Robert L. Miller, Santi Corvaja: Hitler & Mussolini: The Secret Meetings . 2008, 316 pp. 214 f.
  2. Diplomats - The Land of Macaroni . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1955 ( online ).
  3. Angelo Fortunato Formiggini: Chi è? AF Formiggini, 1961, p. 633
  4. ^ Philip Cooke: Oggi in Italia . La voce della verità e della pace nell'Italia della guerra fredda *
  5. ^ Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
predecessor Office successor
Giorgio Millelire Italian ambassador in Managua
1951
Antonio D'Andria
Italian ambassador to Damascus
1956–1957
Carlo Perrone Capano
Manlio Castronuovo Italian ambassador in Prague
1957–1961
Enrico Aillaud