Raffaele Manganiello

Raffaele Manganiello (born November 20, 1900 in Ariano Irpino , † September 14, 1944 in Mazzè (Torino)) was an Italian politician and sports politician for the PNF . At the end of the war he was shot by partisans from the Resistancea .

Life

Manganiello joined the fascist combat groups in Florence while he was still studying medicine . In 1922 he took part in the March on Rome and was already accepted as one of the leaders of Florence despite his age, especially since he had meanwhile passed his medical exam. From 1932 he became party secretary and served as governor in Catanzaro , Cosenza and Rodi , and from 1934 he was a member of parliament. From 1940 he was the administrator of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese, which still belonged to Italy . From 1939 he was Speaker of the Second Chamber ( Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni ). From November 8, 1940, he became the full-time sports leader as President of the CONI. He remained in this position until July 25, 1943 and organized a lively German-Italian sports traffic with the Reich sports leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten . With the fall of Mussolini , he was arrested and taken into custody in Forte Boccea . He was liberated by German troops and went with Mussolini to the fascist rest of Italy of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana . On October 1, 1943, he was appointed Prefect of Florence by Mussolini, where he founded the Office for Jewish Affairs, which he delegated to the well-known local anti-Semites . He brought terror to Florence for L'Unità , because his troops were responsible for hundreds of murders of Jews and political opponents in the city. On July 23, 1944, he had to leave Florence and retreated further north to Varese . He has now been appointed Prefect of Turin . On the connection road to Turin his convoy was attacked by partisans on September 14, 1944 and he was stripped naked by the Red Brigades under Battista Caperone, shot and thrown into the nearby river. The Black Brigade , the XLI Brigata Nera "Raffaele Manganiello" , in Florence then bore his name.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 20, 2016 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. , on. 18th September 2016 
2. ^ Raffaele Manganiello: XXX Legislatura del Regno d'Italia. Camera dei fasci e delle corporazioni / Deputati / Camera dei deputati - Portale storico
3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The Influence of the Fascist Sports Model of Italy on National Socialist Sports. In: Morgen A. Olsen (Ed.): Sport and Politics. 1918-1939 / 40. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1986, pp. 226-232; Arnd Krüger : Sport in Fascist Italy (1922-1933). In: G. Spitzer, D. Schmidt (Ed.): Sport between independence and external determination. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hajo Bernett . P. Wegener, Bonn 1986, pp. 213-226.
4. ↑ Harald Oelrich (2003): Sportgeltung - Weltwertung: Sport in the area of ​​tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945. Münster: LIT, p. 465; ISBN 3-8258-5609-7
5. ↑ A Firenze le deportazioni Furono feroci
6. ↑ Manganiello, da Ariano a Salò ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2016 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. 
7. ↑ cit. n. Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 20, 2016 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. up on 09/18/2016 
8. ^ Carlo Silvestri, Mussolini Graziani e l'antifascismo , Longanesi, Milano, 1949, p. 164