Luigi Bongiovanni | |
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| Italian Governor of Cyrenaica | |
| In office December 1922 – 24 May 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Baccari |
| Succeeded by | Ernesto Mombelli |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 December 1866 Reggio Emilia |
| Died | April 4, 1941 (aged 74) Rome |
Luigi Bongiovanni (1866–1941) was an Italian general. He was a governor of Cyrenaica from December 1922 to May 1924[1]
He was born in Reggio Emilia in 1866.
During the battle of Caporetto in World War I, he commanded VII corps of the Italian 2nd Army. Before that he participated in Boxer Rebellion, then in the Italo-Turkish War. During the "Grande Guerra" served in the Trentino front.[2] After World War I he served as the Italian military governor of Antalya, which was under Italian occupation at the time.
In 1917 he received the italian silver medal for military valor.[3]
From January 1922 to May 1924 he was Governor of Italian Cyrenaica.
In 1924 a flight accident forced B. to leave the Cyrenaica governorship (24 May 1924); retired, he was appointed member (and from 1927 president of the section) of the "Superior Council of the Colonies". Senator in 1929, r. commissioner of the Agronomic Institute for Italian Africa in the period 1930-35, he continued to deal with colonial and military problems, also collaborating on various magazines and writing books.Giorgio Rochat[4]
He was senator of the kingdom of Italy since 1928 (when he become a member of Fascist Party main rulers) until his death (because of hearth attack) in 1941.
