Pompeo D'Ambrosio

Pompeo D'Ambrosio (1 January 1917, in San Marco Evangelista (near Salerno), Italy – 15 April 1998, in Caracas, Venezuela).

He was very renowned in the Italian community in Caracas and was very active - with his financial activity in one of the main Venezuelan banks ("Banco Latino") - for the promotion of many successful Italian entrepreneurs in Venezuela.

He was even a financial manager for Deportivo Italia, the soccer club of the Italian community in Venezuela, during the "golden" years (in the sixties and seventies). Those years, when he ruled the team with his brother Mino, are remembered as the D'Ambrosio Era.

Pompeo D'Ambrosio lived his first years in Campagna, a little town in the Province of Salerno, where his uncle was the Municipal Major who distinguished himself helping the Jews during the nazi persecutions.

In the late 1930s Pompeo D'Ambrosio studied "Administration of Italian Colonies" at the University of Naples.

During World War II he was a Lieutenant in the Italian Army in North Africa (Libya and Egypt), where he was wounded and taken as a POW during the Battle of El Alamein receiving a military Medal of Honor.

When he returned to Italy from an Allied Prisoner of War Camp in Egypt, in 1946 co-founded in Salerno the local section of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, a national-conservative Italian Party actually named Alleanza Nazionale.

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