Alberto Barbieri (born in

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

, 21 December 1882) was an Italian Army Corps General during the Second World War.

Biography

Barbieri participated in the Italian-Turkish War and the First World War, at the end of which he had reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Promoted to General of Division on 1 July 1937, he became commander of the

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, Libya, until 9 June 1940. At the outbreak of World War II, he remained in Libya, receiving the command of the X Army Corps stationed on the Tunisian-Libyan border. His Corps saw no action in 1940-41. He was promoted to Army Corps General on 1 January 1941 and was replaced at the command of the X Corps by General Luigi Nuvoloni on 5 August 1941. He returned to Italy and on 5 October 1941 he became commander of the XVII Army Corps, responsible for the territorial defense of Lazio. On 15 July 1943 he received command of the

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, a new Corps that united all the territorial forces already in the military garrison of Rome. He was replaced as commander a few weeks later by

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, and at the time of the

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, managed to escape capture by the Germans, hiding in Rome.
In June 1944, he was first suspended and then discharged from the Army. Generals.dk
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barbieri, Alberto 1882 births Italian military personnel of World War I Italian military personnel of World War II Italian generals People from Modena Year of death missing