Antonio Goicoechea y Cosculluela

Antonio Goicoechea y Cosculluela (born January 21, 1876 in Barcelona , † February 1, 1953 in Madrid ) was a monarchist Spanish politician and lawyer.

Life

He was a lawyer by profession and led the authoritarian wing of the young conservatives who supported Antonio Maura Montaner's policies . From April to July 1919 he was the Spanish Minister of the Interior in his cabinet .

He supported the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera in the 1920s . During the second republic he was head of the Acción Nacional. He supported the coup led by José Sanjurjo . In the 1930s he founded the monarchist Renovación Española , in which mainly supporters of King Alfonso XIII. collected. He belonged to a delegation that asked Benito Mussolini for support against the republic in 1934 . Later he organized financial support for the Falange . In 1936 he procured weapons for General Emilio Mola in Italy . He welcomed the political unification of the right in 1937 and was tasked with reorganizing the Spanish banking system.

After the Spanish Civil War he was head of several Spanish banks. From 1938 to 1950 he was President of the Bank of Spain , Banco Exterior de España, Mortgage Bank and Industrie Credit Bank. 1936 to 1953 President of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Madrid. In 1943, along with other lawyers in Parliament, he signed a letter to Francisco Franco calling for the restoration of the monarchy.

literature

Francisco J. Romero Salvadó: Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War . Lanham, 2013, p. 152.

Web links

Biography Antonio Goicoechea Cosculluela (Spanish)

Individual evidence

^ Richard Konetzke: The Iberian States from World War I to the era of the authoritarian regime. In: Handbook of European History. Vol. 7.1 Stuttgart, 1996 p. 678.

personal data
SURNAME	Goicoechea y Cosculluela, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goicoechea, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1953
Place of death	Madrid

[1] Richard Konetzke: The Iberian States from World War I to the era of the authoritarian regime. In: Handbook of European History. Vol. 7.1 Stuttgart, 1996 p. 678.