Nevio Skull

Who was Nevio Skull?

Nevio Skull 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 took 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.

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.