Head of hospital department neuropsychiatrist and partisan commander “Surgeon-Glucor” decorated with the Silver Medal for Military Valor by the city of Sacile, Alexander Diploma and War Cross.
Raimondo Lacchin (Polcenigo 1919, Sacile 2009) was a partisan and head of department at the hospital of Sacile. University student on September 8, 1943, faced with the defeat of Fascist Italy and the disintegration of the State, many climbed the mountains. The refusal to join up the Republic of Salò or to put himself at the disposal of the invading Germans was dictated by ideals of freedom, equality and justice, common to those who chose to become partisans. Raimondo Lacchin, young student of medicine and later assistant at the hospital of Sacile of the head of department Marco Meneghini (killed by the Nazis on April 16, 1945), wants the idealism of his choice to find expression with the stratagem of an acronym, in his nom de guerre ‘Glucor’, which stands for Justice, Freedom, Equality, Conscience Honest, Responsible, which were the cornerstones of his ethics and marked the decalogue of the Battalion to whose command he was elected a few months later.
In June 1944 he reaches the Candaglia, above Mezzomonte di Polcenigo, to treat the wounded and sick and immediately becomes ‘Surgeon Glucor’. During the Resistance he is at first Commander of the battalion Manin (Brigades Group Garibaldi ‘Vittorio Veneto’), then from 7 November of the same year he takes command of the newly formed partisan formation Brigade “Ciro Menotti”, operating in the Destra Tagliamento and in Cansiglio.
The commander ‘Surgeon Glucor’ spends the winter, which reaches polar temperatures, in the shepherds’ huts of the Cansiglio until the days of the Liberation, at the end of April 1945, when the partisans of his brigade free a considerable part of the piedmont villages.
With these men and with the support of the Soviet partisans of the Battalion “Kirov” and the officers of an allied mission, Lacchin liberated, after having defeated the Nazi-Fascists at the end of April 1945, the city of Sacile, also managing to save from destruction many companies in the area and the power plant of Caneva, which the Germans had mined.
After the war he continued his studies, graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna, specializing in Neurology, then in Neurophysiology in France and finally in Psychiatry.
Later, he worked in the medical-psychiatric sector, first in Milan and then as Head of department of the Civil Hospital of Sacile.
He held for many years the office of councilor of the Provincial ANPI (National Association of Italian Partisans) and in the years 1980-1984 of President of the ANPI of Sacile.
For his partisan activity he was decorated with the Silver Medal for Military Valor by the city of Sacile, Alexander Diploma and War Cross.
In 2003 he published, in collaboration with Pier Paolo Brescacin (director of the Institute for the History of the Resistance and of the Contemporary Society of the Vittoriese) the book When we dressed as Garibaldi – Diary 1944-1945, a shared daily history of the partisan struggle in the forest of the Cansiglio, where Lacchin had set up at the Col de Scios, in collaboration with the English major Harold William Tilman, a very efficient base to receive the “launches” of the Allies.
The parking lot in Ponte Lacchin Street in Sacile has been dedicated to him.
