Ministry of the Colonies (Italy)

Last updated
Minister of the Colonies
Ministro per l'Africa italiana
E. De Bono 04.jpg
Longest serving
Emilio De Bono
(12 September 1929 – 17 January 1935)
Ministry of the Colonies
StatusAbolished
Constituting instrumentRoyal Decree n. 1205
PrecursorCentral Direction of Colonial Affairs
Formation21 November 1912 (21 November 1912)
First holder Pietro Bertolini
Final holder Alcide De Gasperi
Abolished19 April 1953 (19 April 1953)

The Ministry of the Colonies was the ministry of the government of the Kingdom of Italy responsible for the governing of the country's colonial possessions and the direction of their economies. It was set up on 20 November 1912 by Royal Decree n. 1205, turning the Central Direction of Colonial Affairs within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs into a separate ministry. Royal Decree n. 431 of 8 April 1937 renamed it the Ministry of Italian Africa after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, which resulted in the Italian annexation of the Ethiopian Empire and the birth of Italian East Africa. It was suppressed on 19 April 1953 by law n. 430.

List of ministers

No.PortraitName
(Birth–Death)		Term of officePolitical partyGovernmentRef.
Took officeLeft officeTime in office
Minister of the Colonies
1 Pietro Bertolini.jpg Pietro Bertolini
(1859–1920)		21 November 191221 March 19141 year, 120 days Liberal Union Giolitti IV [1]
2 Illustrazione Italiana 1892 n. 21 - Ferdinando Martini.jpg Ferdinando Martini
(1841–1928)		21 March 191418 June 19162 years, 89 days Liberal Union Salandra I–II [2] [3]
3 Gaspare colosimo.jpg Gaspare Colosimo
(1859–1944)		18 June 191623 June 19193 years, 5 days Liberal Union Boselli
Orlando 		[4] [5]
4 Luigi Rossi 1867-1941.JPG Luigi Rossi
(1867–1941)		23 June 191914 March 1920265 days Italian Radical Party Nitti I [6]
– Francesco Saverio Nitti 1919 (cropped).png Francesco Saverio Nitti
(1867–1941)
Acting		14 March 192021 May 192068 days Italian Radical Party Nitti I [6]
5 Meuccio Ruini.jpg Meuccio Ruini
(1867–1941)		21 May 192015 June 192025 days Italian Radical Party Nitti II [7]
(4) Luigi Rossi 1867-1941.JPG Luigi Rossi
(1867–1941)		15 June 19204 July 19211 year, 19 days Italian Radical Party Giolitti V [8]
6 Giuseppe Girardini.jpg Giuseppe Girardini  [ it ]
(1856–1923)		4 July 192126 February 1922237 days Social Democracy Bonomi I [9]
7 Giovanni Amendola 2.jpg Giovanni Amendola
(1882–1926)		26 February 192230 October 1922246 days Democratic Liberal Party Facta I–II [10] [11]
8 Luigi Federzoni 1930s.jpg Luigi Federzoni
(1878–1967)		26 February 19223 June 19242 years, 98 days Nationalist Association Mussolini [12]
9 Principe Pietro Lanza di Scalea.png Pietro Lanza di Scalea
(1863–1938)		3 June 19246 November 19262 years, 156 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
(8) Luigi Federzoni 1930s.jpg Luigi Federzoni
(1878–1967)		6 November 192618 December 192842 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
– Benito Mussolini portrait as dictator.jpg Benito Mussolini
(1883–1945)
Acting		18 December 192812 September 1929268 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
10 E. De Bono 04.jpg Emilio De Bono
(1866–1944)		12 September 192917 January 19355 years, 127 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
– Benito Mussolini portrait as dictator.jpg Benito Mussolini
(1883–1945)
Acting		17 January 193511 June 19361 year, 146 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
11 Alessandro Lessona.jpg Alessandro Lessona
(1891–1991)		11 June 19368 April 1937301 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [12]
Minister of Italian Africa
(11) Alessandro Lessona.jpg Alessandro Lessona
(1891–1991)		8 April 193720 November 1937226 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [13]
12 Benito Mussolini portrait as dictator.jpg Benito Mussolini
(1883–1945)		20 November 193731 October 19391 year, 345 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [13]
13 Attilio teruzzi.jpg Attilio Teruzzi
(1882–1950)		31 October 193925 July 19433 years, 267 days National Fascist Party Mussolini [13]
14 Melchiade Gabba.jpg Melchiade Gabba
(1874–1952)		27 July 194311 February 1944199 days Independent Badoglio I –
– Pietro Badoglio 3.jpg Pietro Badoglio
(1871–1956)
Acting		11 February 19448 June 1944118 days Independent Badoglio I–II –
– Ivanoe Bonomi 1944.jpg Ivanoe Bonomi
(1873–1951)
Acting		18 June 194421 June 19451 year, 13 days Labour Democratic Party Bonomi II–III –
16 Ferruccio Parri Senato.jpg Ferruccio Parri
(1890–1981)		21 June 19458 December 1945170 days Action Party Parri [14]
17 Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg Alcide De Gasperi
(1881–1954)		10 December 194519 April 19537 years, 132 days Christian Democracy De Gasperi I–II–III–IV–V–VI–VII [15] [16]
[17] [18]
[19] [20]
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