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.
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Tenure | Incumbent | Notes | width=50px | Portrait |
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Italian suzerainty | ||||
5 May 1912 to 14 October 1913 | Giovanni 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 1914 | Francesco Marchi, Commander | |||
27 April 1914 to 3 August 1914 | Giovanni Croce, Provisional Commander | |||
3 August 1914 to 26 May 1917 | Giovanni Croce, Commander | |||
27 May 1917 to 15 December 1919 | Vittorio 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 1921 | Felice Maissa, Commander | |||
17 August 1921 to 15 November 1922 | , Commander | |||
16 November 1922 to 27 November 1936 | Mario Lago, Governor | |||
2 December 1936 to 9 December 1940 | Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Governor | One of the Fascist quadrumvirs who organised the March on Rome | ||
10 December 1940 to 14 July 1941 | Ettore Bastico, Governor | Appointed as Governor-General of Italian Libya on 19 July 1941 | ||
15 July 1941 to 18 September 1943 | Inigo 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 1944 | Ulrich Kleemann, Commander | |||
20 September 1944 to 5 May 1945 | Otto Wagener, Commander | |||
British administration | ||||
May 1945 to 1945 | Peter Acland, Chief Administrator | |||
1945 to 1946 | Charles Henry Gormley, Chief Administrator | |||
1946 to 15 September 1947 | Arthur Stanley Parker, Chief Administrator | |||