Leo Negrelli

Leo Negrelli (born in Trieste, died in Spain in 1974), was an Italian journalist.

Biography

As a member of the Sursum Corda he was one of the organisers of Gabriele D'Annunzio's arrival in Fiume in 1919.[1] Negrelli continued to play an important part in the 1920s as the main liaison for Hermann Göring in Italy, after the failure of Hitler's Beer Hall revolution in 1923.[2] Before the coup d'état Kurt Ludecke persuaded Mussolini to send Dr. Leo Negrelli to Munich to interview Hitler on Oct. 16, 1923 for the Corriere Italiano.[3] In 1926 he became director of the Alpenzeitung the German newspaper published under the auspices of the Italian Fascist government for the Province of Bolzano. In summer 1929 Leo Negrelli was in charge with an experimental radio broadcasting program aimed for Italians residing in America and in the Italian African colonies. The transmissions, intended as a propaganda service, from the stationery Roma S.Paolo were under the control of the Ministry of the communications on behalf of the government press office.[4] In the Second World War Leo Negrelli was chief press attaché in the Italian Social Republic.[5] After the Second World War, Negrelli emigrated to Spain where he remained a reference point for various rightwing expats living there. In Spain Negrelli, as editor of the paper Voce dell'Occidente, had contacts with Yves Guérin-Sérac head of Aginter Press.[6]

References
  1. Nella notte del 12 settembre 50 volontari della "Sursum corda" ben armati con 15 ufficiali al comando del cap. Leo Negrelli passarono la barra di Cantrida, in G. A. Chiurco, Storia della Rivoluzione fascista, I vol, 1929.
  2. Goering's Italian Exile 1924-1925 Author(s): Michael Palumbo Source: The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 50, No. 1, On Demand Supplement (Mar., 1978), pp. D1035-D1051 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1877311 Accessed: 07/02/2009 05:50
  3. Intellect, Volume 106, Society for the Advancement of Education, 1977, p. 490
  4. la radiofonia italiana durante gli anni del fascismo - Roma e il Mondo(in Italian)
  5. Macklin, Graham (2007). Very Deeply Dyed in Black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the Resurrection of British Fascism After 1945 (2nd ed.). London: Taurus. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-84511-284-4.
  6. Corrado Incerti, Sandro Ottolenghi and Piero Raffaelli GIORNALISTI ITALIANI AL SERVIZIO DELL'AGENZIA TERRORISTICA Archived 2016-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, L'Europeo, 1974 (in Italian)


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