Puccio Pucci (lawyer)

Puccio Pucci (12 April 1904 to 15 January 1985) was an Italian middle-distance runner, lawyer and sports official. As an athlete he competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was the son of the notary Pietro Pucci, who had been a director of the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera, the Italian athletics federation known as FIDAL. His later career was in sports administration and politics: as right-hand man to Alessandro Pavolini, secretary of the Partito Fascista Repubblicano, he helped form the Black Brigades. On 18 March 1944 he was made president of the Italian National Olympic Committee on the basis of his experience with FIDAL, and he was removed from the national sporting movement of the Kingdom of the South, officially from 28 June 1944, when Giulio Onesti was appointed commissioner.