List of governors-general of Italian Libya

This article lists the governors-general of Italian Libya, a colony of the Italian Empire from 1934 to 1943.

Governor-General of Italian Libya
Governatore Generale della Libia italiana
Coat of arms of Italian Libya
Longest serving Italo Balbo 1 January 1934 – 28 June 1940
Reports to	King of Italy
Residence	Governor-General's Palace, Tripoli
Precursor	Governor of Italian Tripolitania Governor of Italian Cyrenaica
Formation	1 January 1934
First holder	Italo Balbo
Final holder	Giovanni Messe
Abolished	13 May 1943
Succession	Allied administrators of Libya

List

No.	Portrait	Governor-General	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Defence branch
1		Balbo, ItaloMarshal of the Air Italo Balbo (1896–1940) [a]	1 January 1934	28 June 1940 †	6 years, 179 days	Regia Aeronautica
2		Graziani, RodolfoMarshal Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955)	1 July 1940	25 March 1941 [b]	267 days	Royal Italian Army
3		Gariboldi, ItaloGeneral Italo Gariboldi (1879–1970)	25 March 1941	19 July 1941	116 days	Royal Italian Army
4		Bastico, EttoreMarshal Ettore Bastico (1876–1972)	19 July 1941	2 February 1943	1 year, 198 days	Royal Italian Army
–		Messe, GiovanniGeneral Giovanni Messe (1883–1968) Acting	2 February 1943	13 May 1943	100 days	Royal Italian Army

Timeline

See also

• Italian Libya
• Italian Cyrenaica
  • List of colonial governors of Italian Cyrenaica
• Italian Tripolitania
  • List of colonial governors of Italian Tripolitania
• History of Libya
• Italo-Turkish War
• North African campaign

Footnotes

1. Although Pietro Badoglio was uniquely governor of Tripolitania (including Fezzan) and Cyrenaica from 1929 to 1933, Libya became a united province under Balbo.^[1]
2. Replaced in the aftermath of Operation Compass, during the Western Desert campaign of World War II.