Nevio Skull
Nevio Skull (23 December 1903 – 3 May 1945) was an Italian businessmen and politician.
From his father, Skull inherited the property of the "Foundry and factory machines of Matthew Skull", founded in Rijeka in 1878 and quickly became the largest private industry in the city before being taken over in 1935. After 1943 Skull was approached by emissaries of the Yugoslav partistan forces, who attempted to convince him to support the annexation of the city of Rijeka from Yugoslavia. Skull rejected these proposals, and with the surrender of Italy in World War II, a group of citizens issued a "Liburnia Memorandum" in which it was recommended that a confederate state be formed from the free contons of Fiume, Susak, and Ilirska Bistrica (The islands of Krk (Veglia), Cres (Cherso) and Lošinj (Lussino) would also enter common condominium).[1]
On the night of 3 and 4 May 1945, following the occupation of the Yugoslav River, Skull was arrested by agents of OZNA and disappeared. His body was found on the riverbed of the Rječina 25 days later with a gunshot wound to the neck.[2]
Notes
- Salvatore Samani, Biographical Dictionary of Rijeka, Dolo-Venice 1975, Institute Tipografico Editorial, p. 129.
- Ibid. See Society for the Study Fiume Rome - Hrvatski Institut za Zagreb Povijest, Victims of Italian nationals in and around River (1939-1947) / u Žrtve talijanske nacionalnosti Rijeci the okolici (1939.-1947.), Rome 2002, Ministry of Heritage and Culture - General Directorate of Archives, p. 627
- ↑ Salvatore Samani, Biographical Dictionary of Rijeka, Dolo-Venice 1975, Letterpress Editorial Institute,
- ↑ Studies Society Fiume Rome - Hrvatski Institut za Zagreb Povijest, Victims of Italian nationals in and around River (1939-1947) / u Žrtve talijanske nacionalnosti Rijeci the okolici (1939.-1947.), Rome 2002, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activities - Directorate General of archives