Massimo Teglio
Italian aviator
Massimo Teglio (Genoa, 2 August 1900 – Genoa, 31 January 1990) was an Italian aviator responsible for DELASEM for Northern Italy from 1943 to 1945.
Biography
His father Roberto co-owned with his brothers in Genoa the firm "Fratelli Teglio", now known as Icat Food, a fish canning business founded in 1850 by their grandfather Laudadio Teglio, a native of Modena. Laudadio, who had thirteen children, set up a trade in fish with sardine packing factories he established in England at Polperro, Looe and Plymouth that are still standing, and which were managed by his son, Guglielmo (1861–1926), who settled in Plymouth.
The Teglio family was of Sephardi Jewish origin and was present in Modena from the beginning of the eighteenth century, with the surname Telio, which is probably a variant of the surname Telo, used by Spanish Jews before the expulsion.
In 1917 he volunteered for the newly-formed military air force and attended a pilot training course but he did not qualify as a pilot before the end of World War I.
He initially worked in the family firm but he left this because he preferred piloting planes and hydroplanes. He founded the Genoa aeronautical club.
He was a friend of leading Fascist Italo Balbo, having flown with him, and took part on three occasions in the air shows organised by him as governor of Libya. He was warmly greeted publicly by Balbo during his last visit to Genoa in 1939 after the promulgation of the Italian racial laws.
When the Nazis arrived in Genoa in September 1943 he engaged in helping persecuted Jews, with the support of the church. Despite the million-lira bounty placed on his head by the Fascists with the help of forged papers and his many friends he was able to evade capture and was nicknamed the Jewish Scarlet Pimpernel.
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