List of colonial governors of Italian Somaliland

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Governor of Italian Somaliland
Governatore della Somalia italiana
Coat of arms of Italian Somaliland
Longest serving
Emilio Dulio
25 May 1898 – 16 March 1905
Reports toKing of Italy
Governor-General of Italian East Africa (after 1936)
ResidenceGovernor's Palace, Mogadishu
Formation3 August 1889
First holderVincenzo Filonardi
Final holderCarlo De Simone (acting)
Abolished9 March 1941
SuccessionBritish military administrators of Somalia
Italian Somaliland (green) and Jubaland/Oltre Giuba (blue) in 1930.
Enlargement and transformation of Italian Somaliland into Somalia Governorate of the Italian East Africa, 1936–1941.

This article lists the colonial governors of Italian Somaliland from 1889 to 1941. They administered the territory on behalf of the Kingdom of Italy.

Italian Somaliland[edit]

Complete list of colonial governors of Italian Somaliland:[1]

Tenure[a] Portrait Incumbent Notes
Benadir coast Italian protectorate
3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Vincenzo Filonardi,
Governor		 1st time
15 May 1893 to 1896 Vacant
1896 to 1897 Vincenzo Filonardi,
Commissioner		 2nd time
1897 Emilio Dulio,
Commissioner		 1st time
1897 to 25 May 1898 Giorgio Sorrentino,
Commissioner
25 May 1898 to 16 March 1905 Emilio Dulio,
Governor		 2nd time
Italian Somaliland colony
16 March 1905 to 1906 Luigi Mercatelli,
Commissioner-General
1906 to 1907 Giuseppe Salvago Raggi,
Commissioner-General
1907 to 1908 Tommaso Carletti,
Commissioner-General
1908 to July 1910 Tommaso Carletti,
Governor
Italian Somaliland crown colony
July 1910 to 1916 Giacomo De Martino,
Governor
1916 to 1919 Giovanni Cerrina Feroni,
Governor
1919 to 21 June 1920 Vacant
21 June 1920 to 8 December 1923 Carlo Ricci Riveri,
Governor
8 December 1923 to 1 June 1928 Cesare Maria De Vecchi,
Governor		 From 1925 conte di Val Cismon
1 June 1928 to 1 July 1931 Guido Corni,
Governor
1 July 1931 to 6 March 1935 Maurizio Rava,
Governor
6 March 1935 to 22 May 1936 Rodolfo Graziani,
Governor
22 May 1936 to 24 May 1936 Angelo De Ruben,
Governor		 De facto Governor since January 1936
Somalia Governorate
Part of Italian East Africa
24 May 1936 to 15 December 1937 Ruggiero Santini,
Governor
15 December 1937 to 11 June 1940 Francesco Caroselli,
Governor
11 June 1940 to 31 December 1940 Gustavo Pesenti,
acting Governor
31 December 1940 to 9 March 1941 Carlo De Simone,
acting Governor

Between 1936 and 1941, Italian Somaliland was administered as the Somalia Governorate within Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana). In 1940, British Somaliland was invaded and annexed to the Somalia Governorate and governed by Carlo De Simone as "interim military governor" until March 1941.

British Military Administration/Trust Territory of Somaliland[edit]

Coat of arms of the Trust Territory of Somaliland
Somalia after independence in 1960, when British Somaliland and the Trust Territory of Somaliland disappeared with their political union

From 1941 until 1950, Italian Somaliland was governed by the British Military Administration. The territory was thereafter administered as the Trust Territory of Somaliland, a United Nations trusteeship with Italian administration. The governors were:

Tenure Portrait Incumbent Notes
British administration of Italian Somaliland
25 February 1941 to 20 March 1941 Alan Cunningham,
General Officer Commanding		 Military occupation
20 March 1941 to May 1943 William Eric Halstead Scuphan,
Chief Administrator
May 1943 to 1948 Denis Henry Widcham,
Chief Administrator
1948 Eric Armar Vully de Candole,
Chief Administrator
1948 to 1 April 1950 Geoffrey Massey Gamble,
Chief Administrator
Italian Somaliland, Trust Territory of Somalia
Under Italian administration (Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia, AFIS)
1 April 1950 to 1953 Giovanni Fornari,
Administrator[2]
1953 to 1954 Vacant
1954 to 1957 Enrico Martino [it],
Administrator
1957 to 24 July 1958 Enrico Anzilotti,
Administrator
24 July 1958 to 1 July 1960 Mario Di Stefano,
Administrator
1 July 1960 Unification of the Trust Territory of Somalia and the State of Somaliland, establishing the Somali Republic (Somalia).

For continuation after independence, see: List of presidents of Somalia.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Worldstatesmen.org
  2. ^ Patrizia Palumbo (2003). A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. University of California Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-520-93626-3.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Antonicelli, Franco. Trent'anni di storia italiana 1915 – 1945. Ed. Mondadori. Torino, 1961.
  • Calchi Novati, Gian Paolo. L'Africa d'Italia Editori Carrocci. Roma, 2011.
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