Ruggero Santini

Italian general (1870–1958)

Ruggero Santini (April 16, 1870 – April 4, 1958)^[1] was an Italian general. He was the colonial governor of Somaliland. He fought in the First Italo-Ethiopian War and Italo-Turkish War. In World War I he fought against Austria-Hungary.

During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War he commanded the 1st Corps and fought in the North against the Ethiopians.^[2]

Awards

Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915–1918

Preceded by

Angelo De Ruben

Italian Governor of Somaliland
1936–1937

Succeeded by

Francesco Saverio Caroselli

References

^ "Scheda senatore SANTINI Ruggero".
^ Barker, A. J. (1968). The Civilising Mission: The Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–6. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-93201-6.

External links

"Ruggero Santini". Libero (in Italian). Retrieved 18 July 2017.

v t e Italian Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland
Governors of Eritrea (1890–1941)	Baldassarre Orero^cm Antonio Gandolfi^cm Oreste Baratieri^cm Antonio Baldissera Ferdinando Martini Giuseppe Salvago Raggi Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Giacomo De Martino Camillo de Camillis Lodovico Pollera Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Jacopo Gasparini Corrado Zoli Riccardo Di Lucchesi Otone Gabelli^v Emilio De Bono Pietro Badoglio Alfredo Guzzoni^p Vincenzo de Feo^p Giuseppe Daodice^p Luigi Frusci^p
Governors of Somaliland (1889–1941)	Vincenzo Filonardi Vacant (1893–1896) Vincenzo Filonardi^c Emilio Dulio^c Giorgio Sorrentino^c Emilio Dulio Luigi Mercatelli^cg Giuseppe Salvago Raggi^cg Tommaso Carletti^cg Tommaso Carletti Giacomo De Martino Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Carlo Ricci Riveri Cesare Maria De Vecchi Guido Corni Maurizio Rava Rodolfo Graziani Angelo De Ruben^p Ruggiero Santini^p Francesco Caroselli^p Gustavo Pesenti^p Carlo De Simone^p
cm=Commanders. c=Commissioners. cg=Commissioners-General. v=Vice-Governor. p=As a part of Italian East Africa