Romano Lodi Fé

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Romano Lodi Fé (born August 11, 1881 in Ostiglia , † December 25, 1971 in Rome ) was an Italian diplomat .

Life

Romano Lodi Fé was the son of Elena Luigi and Golinelli Lodi Fé. He married Katé Abbott daughter of Alfred Abbott on July 18, 1915 in Thessaloniki. Their children were Katé and Maurizio Abott (born June 1, 1918 in Thessaloniki).

He studied law , entered the foreign service in 1908 and was sent to Egypt . From 1910 to 1912 he was Vice Consul in the United States, on June 25, 1912 he became Vice Consul for Denver , in 1917 he became consul in San Francisco .

After the peace treaty of Ouchy of October 18, 1912 he was commissioner for the armistice in the Dodecanese , in 1914 he was consul in Bitola . From 1915 to 1918 he was Consul General in Thessaloniki .

In 1919 he was the Italian High Commissioner in Constantinople .

He was a member of the Italian reparations delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . At the end of April 1927 he was replaced by Ubaldo Rochira as consul general in Zagreb . He was then consul general in Nice and Zurich .

From 1934 onwards, as consul general in Dublin , he was busy spreading fascist ideas and creating anti-British sentiment. Romano Lodi Fé received on March 23, 1937 the agreement of the Irish government under Éamon de Valera as Ministre plénipotentiaire in Dublin. Whereupon he and Eduard Hempel presented a corresponding letter of accreditation to Dublin Castle on July 26, 1937 . The League of Nations imposed an embargo on fascist Italy in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936) . Romano Lodi Fé sent the Irish government in a note dated 11 November the legal opinion of the government under Benito Mussolini , the receipt of which was confirmed by the Irish government.

Lodi Fé was ambassador in Oslo from September 2, 1938 to November 8, 1945 . During this time the Swedish and Finnish government contributed a wish on mediation of government of Benito Mussolini in the Winter War zoom in Moscow and Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Extract from the minutes of the Executive Council" , Dublin, 23 March 1937.
  2. ^ "Draft letter from the Department of External Affairs to Romano Lodi Fé" , Dublin, Undated.
  3. Bernd Wegner , From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939-1941 , Military History Research Office , p. 516
  4. Angelo Fortunato Formiggini, Chi è? , 1961
  5. ^ Fabio Grassi: La Formazione della diplomazia nazionale (1861-1915). Repertorio bio-bibliografico dei funzionari del Ministero degli affari esteri , p. 421
predecessor Office successor
Carlo Sforza Italian High Commissioner in Constantinople
1919
Eugenio Camillo Garroni
Toni Piero Italian Ministre plénipotentiaire in Dublin
July 26, 1937 to 1938
Vincenzo Berardis
Giovanni Amadori Italian envoy in Oslo
September 2, 1938 to November 8, 1945
Guglielmo Rulli