Agostino Podestà


Agostino Podestà was an Italian fascist politician.
Born in Novi Ligure on 27 June 1905, Podestà graduated in Physics, enrolled in the National Fascist Party of Italy in November 1920, and participated as squadrista to the March on Rome. He became an Officer of the Blackshirts, and was promoted to Colonel in July 1943. He was Secretary of the G.U.F. of Pavia, secretary of the P.N.F. of Novi Ligure, Segretario Federale of the P.N.F. in Avellino and later Verona.
He served as Prefect of Arezzo and Prefect of Perugia. In May 1942, he was nominated High Commissar for the Italian-German accords for the South Tyrol. He was nominated Prefect of Fiume.

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