Angelo Tarchi (Borgo San Lorenzo, 5 February 1897 – Milan, 16 February 1974) was an Italian Fascist politician, Minister of Corporative Economy of the Italian Social Republic. He was the grand-uncle of Marco Tarchi.
Biography
He fought as a volunteer in the First World War, reaching the rank of captain in the Arditi and earning a Bronze Medal of Military Valor.Istituto del Nastro AzzurroFondazione RSI At the end of the war he joined the Italian Fasces of Combat, and later the National Fascist Party.Fondazione RSI Holder of a degree in chemistry, he was a member of scientific academies and held executive positions in chemical companies.Camera dei DeputatiFondazione RSI In 1934 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and in 1939 he became a member of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.Camera dei Deputati
In 1940 he volunteered for the Greco-Italian War, commanding a battalion of the 83rd Infantry Regiment with the rank of major (later promoted to lieutenant colonel) and receiving another Bronze Medal.Istituto del Nastro Azzurro On 26 December 1941 he was appointed National Inspector of the National Fascist Party.Fondazione RSI On 28 August 1943, after the fall of the Fascist regime, he was recalled into Army service and given command of a battalion of the 215th Coastal Division, which he disbanded after the armistice of Cassibile of 8 September 1943.Fondazione RSI He then joined the Italian Social Republic, collaborating in the drafting of the decree on the socialization of the economy, and was one of the proponents of the Verona Manifesto.Fondazione RSIAngelo Tarchi From 1 January 1944 he succeeded Silvio Gai as Minister of Corporative Economy.Fondazione RSIFondazione Fiera MilanoAngelo TarchiAngelo Tarchi On 19 January 1945 this ministry was suppressed and renamed Ministry of Labor and Industrial Production, still headed by Tarchi.Fondazione Fiera MilanoFondazione RSI
On 26 April 1945, as the Italian Social Republic collapsed with the Allies advancing beyond the Po and the partisans taking control of the major northern Italian cities, Tarchi tried to flee to Switzerland along with Guido Buffarini Guidi, former Minister of the Interior of the Italian Social Republic (in the previous days, Tarchi and Buffarini Guidi had tried to persuade Mussolini to cross the Swiss border), but they were arrested near Porlezza by the Guardia di Finanza, which had placed itself at the orders of the National Liberation Committee.Giorgio Bocca, La repubblica di Mussolini, p. 333 Frederick W. Deakin, Storia della repubblica di Salò, p. 793Silvio Bertoldi, Salòː vita e morte della Repubblica Sociale Italiana, p. 268 Franco Fucci, Le polizie di Mussolini, la repressione dell'antifascismo nel Ventennio, p. 315 He was subsequently tried for his role in the Fascist regime, but amnestied in 1948.
He then returned to work in the chemical industry and directed the magazine Chimica. He also became President of the Italian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.Fondazione RSI In the 1960s, he was elected city councilor of Milan with the Italian Social Movement, and in 1967 he published a book of political reflections, entitled Teste dure. He died in Milan in 1974.Camera dei DeputatiFondazione Fiera Milano
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