List of governors of the Italian Islands of the Aegean explained

Post:Governor
Body:the Italian Islands of the Aegean
Insigniasize:75px
Insigniacaption:Coat of arms of the Italian Islands of the Aegean
Reports To:King of Italy
Residence:, Rhodes
Formation:5 May 1912
Abolished:7 May 1945
Succession:British military administrators in the Aegean

This article lists the governors of the Italian Colony of Aegean Islands, from 1912 to 1947. It includes Italian commanders and governors, as well as German commanders and British administrators of the Dodecanese during World War II and its aftermath.

Italy conquered the Dodecanese from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War and ceded the islands to Greece in 1947, according to the Treaty of Paris.

List

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

TenureIncumbentNoteswidth=50pxPortrait
Italian suzerainty
5 May 1912 to 14 October 1913Giovanni Ameglio,
Commander
Commander of the Royal Italian Army in the Battle of Rhodes
15 October 1913 to 8 November 1913,
Provisional Commander
9 November 1913 to 26 April 1914Francesco Marchi,
Commander
27 April 1914 to 3 August 1914Giovanni Croce,
Provisional Commander
3 August 1914 to 26 May 1917Giovanni Croce,
Commander
27 May 1917 to 15 December 1919Vittorio Elia,
Commander
15 December 1919 to 6 August 1920,
Commander
7 August 1920 to 16 September 1920,
Provisional Commander
17 September 1920 to 16 August 1921Felice Maissa,
Commander
17 August 1921 to 15 November 1922,
Commander
16 November 1922 to 27 November 1936Mario Lago,
Governor
2 December 1936 to 9 December 1940Cesare Maria De Vecchi,
Governor
One of the Fascist quadrumvirs who organised the March on Rome
10 December 1940 to 14 July 1941Ettore Bastico,
Governor
Appointed as Governor-General of Italian Libya on 19 July 1941
15 July 1941 to 18 September 1943Inigo Campioni,
Governor
Captured by the Germans during the Dodecanese campaign, following the Armistice of Cassibile
German occupation
18 September 1943 to 7 May 1945,
Vice Governor
Appointed on behalf of the Italian Social Republic
8 September 1943 to 20 September 1944Ulrich Kleemann,
Commander
20 September 1944 to 5 May 1945Otto Wagener,
Commander
British administration
May 1945 to 1945Peter Acland,
Chief Administrator
1945 to 1946Charles Henry Gormley,
Chief Administrator
1946 to 15 September 1947Arthur Stanley Parker,
Chief Administrator

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