Giovanni Messe - Life After The Army

Life After The Army

His later life was not uneventful. Following the conclusion of the war, he wrote a book about his experiences, entitled Come finì la guerra in Africa. La "Prima Armata" italiana in Tunisia (How the war in Africa ended. The "First Army" of Italy in Tunisia). His military popularity remained with him in civilian life and from 1953 to 1955, Messe was a democratically elected representative in the Italian Senate. He was also President of the Italian Veterans Association, a post which he held until his death. His life was profiled in a biography written by Luigi Argentieri titled Messe—soggetto di un'altra storia (Messe—subject of another history) published in 1997.

Giovanni Messe died on December 18, 1968, at the age of eighty-five.

Military offices
Preceded by
Ettore Bastico		 Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa
2 February 1943—13 May 1943		 Succeeded by
No successor
Government offices
Preceded by
Ettore Bastico		 Governor-General of Italian Libya
2 February 1943—4 February 1943		 Succeeded by
No successor
Marshals of Italy
  • Graf Luigi Cadorna
  • Armando Diaz
  • Emanuele Filiberto of Aosta
  • Pietro Badoglio
  • Enrico Caviglia
  • Gaetano Giardino
  • Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi
  • Emilio De Bono
  • Rodolfo Graziani
  • Ugo Cavallero
  • Ettore Bastico
  • Umberto II of Italy
  • Giovanni Messe
  • Paolo Thaon di Revel (Grandadmiral)
  • Italo Balbo (Marshal of the Air Force)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients in the military of allies of the Third Reich
  • Ion Antonescu
  • Ugo de Carolis
  • Ugo Cavallero
  • Corneliu Dragalina
  • Ioan Dumitrache
  • Petre Dumitrescu
  • Emilio Esteban Infantes
  • Carlo Fecia di Cossato
  • Italo Gariboldi
  • Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia
  • Ermil Gheorghiu
  • Fedele di Giorgio
  • Enzo Grossi
  • Erik Heinrichs
  • József Heszlényi
  • Miklós Horthy
  • Ioan Hristea
  • Mihály von Ibrányi
  • Gusztáv Jány
  • Emanoil Ionescu
  • Mineichi Koga
  • Radu Korne
  • Géza Lakatos
  • Mihail Lascăr
  • Dezső László
  • Horia Macellariu
  • Augustín Malár
  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  • Gheorghe Manoliu
  • Giulio Martinat
  • Giovanni Messe
  • Béla Miklós
  • Leonard Mociulschi
  • Agustín Muñoz Grandes
  • Ioan Pălăghiţă
  • Ioan Mihail Racoviţă
  • Edgar Rădulescu
  • Gheorghe Răscănescu
  • Zoltán Szügyi
  • Nicolae Tătăranu
  • Corneliu Teodorini
  • Jozef Turanec
  • Isoroku Yamamoto
in alphabetical order
Persondata
Name Messe, Giovanni
Alternative names
Short description Italian general
Date of birth December 10, 1883
Place of birth Mesagne, Province of Brindisi
Date of death December 18, 1968
Place of death

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