Adelino Amaro da Costa

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Adelino Amaro da Costa as a guest at the CDU party conference in 1978 in Ludwigshafen

Adelino Amaro da Costa (born April 18, 1943 in Lisbon , † December 4, 1980 in Camarate ) was a conservative Portuguese politician .

Life

Adelino Amaro da Costa was born in Lisbon in 1943. His father's work for the government of the Salazar dictatorship led the family to Madeira Island in 1944 , where Amaro da Costa grew up. In 1953 the family moved back to Lisbon.

Amaro da Costa studied engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico University in Lisbon , which he graduated in 1966. After his military service in the Portuguese Navy , he worked as an engineer and also worked as a journalist. From 1968 he was on the advisory staff of the Ministry of Education in the authoritarian Estado Novo regime under Marcelo Caetano .

After the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, he was with Diogo Freitas do Amaral founder of the conservative CDS party . Since then he has been considered one of the party's most important ideologues . He was also instrumental in the formation of the Aliança Democrática electoral alliance , which won a majority in the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 1979 on December 2nd. For the first time since 1974 a bourgeois government came to power in the country, with the charismatic Francisco Sá Carneiro becoming Prime Minister . Amaro da Costa became Minister of Defense of the new government on January 3, 1980.

On December 4, 1980, Amaro da Costa was on a flight to Porto with the Prime Minister and two wives , when the Cessna took off near the municipality of Camarate . The accident was classified by the authorities as an accident after the investigation, even if suspicions about an attack could not be dispelled beyond doubt.

Honors

After the crash in Lisbon on December 22, 1980, the Largo das Caldas square was renamed Largo Adelino Amaro da Costa . A total of 126 streets and squares across the country were named Adelino Amaro da Costa.

Web links

Commons : Adelino Amaro da Costa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of the Instituto Amaro da Costa , accessed on December 8, 2013
  2. ^ Biography of Adelino da Costas (port.), Accessed on December 8, 2013
  3. ↑ list of street names on www.portugalio.com, accessed on December 8, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Adelino Amaro there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1980
Place of death at Camarate