Guido Buffarini-Guidi (17 August 1895 – 10 July 1945) was Minister of the Interior of Italy from May 1933 to July 1945.
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Guido Buffarini-Guidi was born on 17 August 1895 in Pisa, Italy. He volunteered in an artillery regiment during World War I, and in 1917 he was promoted to Captain; after the war, he graduated from the University of Pisa in 1920 with a bachelor's degree in law. He left the army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and became Mayor of Pisa, and he supported the blackshirts during the 1922 March on Rome. In 1933, he became Minister of the Interior of Fascist Italy and forged an alliance with Minister of Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano. He opposed anti-Semitism, but he was one of the men who supported Benito Mussolini in 1943 before he was impeached. Buffarini-Guidi became Minister of the Interior of the Salo Republic, but in February 1945 he was dismissed. On 26 April, he was captured by partisans, and on 10 July he was executed by firing squad.