Leo Negrelli (born in
Trieste, died in Spain in 1974), was an Italian
journalist.
Biography
As a member of the
Sursum Corda
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he was one of the organisers of
Gabriele D'Annunzio's arrival in Fiume in 1919.
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. 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.
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.
In the Second World War Leo Negrelli was chief press attaché in the
Italian Social Republic
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. 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
Yves Guérin-Sérac, born Yves Guillou (also known as Jean-Robert de Guernadec or Ralf; 2 December 1926 – 9 March 2022) was a French anti-Communist Roman Catholic activist, former officer of the French army and veteran of the First Indochina Wa ...
head of
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.
[Corrado Incerti, Sandro Ottolenghi and Piero Raffaell]
GIORNALISTI ITALIANI AL SERVIZIO DELL'AGENZIA TERRORISTICA
, ''L'Europeo
''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti. '', 1974
References
1974 deaths
Year of birth missing
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