Quirino Armellini
Quirino Armellini was an Italian military officer, who served as a general in both the Royal Italian Army and the Italian Army.Biography
Armellini was commissioned into the Royal Italian Army as a second lieutenant in 1908, after graduating from the Military Academy of Modena, and participated in the Italo-Turkish War and the World War I.
After serving under the command of Pietro Badoglio in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War against the Ethiopian Empire, Armellini was appointed commander of the Italian African Police in the Italian East Africa.
In 1942, during the World War II in Yugoslavia, Armellini was appointed commander of the XVIII Army Corps in the Italian-occupied Dalmatia.
After the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy on 25 July 1943, King Victor Emmanuel III appointed Armellini to succeed Benito Mussolini as commander of the Voluntary Militia for National Security, the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party. Under his leadership, the MVSN was dissolved and integrated into the regular Royal Army.
From January to March 1944, when was arrested, Armellini assumed the role of head of the of the within the Italian resistance movement, later replaced by.
After the World War II, Armellini was president of the Superior Council of the Italian Armed Forces.
