Armindo Rodrigues de Sttau Monteiro
Armindo Rodrigues de Sttau Monteiro (born December 16, 1896 in Vila Velha de Ródão , † October 15, 1955 in Barrão , Loures ), better known as Armindo Monteiro , was a Portuguese politician, entrepreneur, diplomat and university professor. During the time of the Portuguese dictatorship, the place Bobonaro in the colony of Portuguese Timor was renamed to Vila Armindo Monteiro after him .
Life
Armindo was born to Arménio da Costa de Sttau Monteiro and Rosária Maria Rodrigues da Silva near the border with Spain . At the University of Coimbra he studied law with a specialization in public finance and then worked as a journalist from 1919 to 1928. In the First Portuguese Republic , Monteiro was politically active as a conservative republican. Eventually he became a member of the commission responsible for paying off the Portuguese war debts from the First World War to Great Britain . Here he acquired a reputation as an expert in public finance.
In the following Portuguese dictatorship of the Estado Novo , Monteiro became finance minister in 1928, but was soon replaced by his political rival António de Oliveira Salazar . Monteiro was Minister for the Colonies (April 11, 1931 to May 11, 1935), Foreign Minister (1935-1936) and between 1937 and 1943 Ambassador of Portugal in London . Monteiro was considered Anglophile and cosmopolitan and a possible democratic alternative to the dictator Salazar, allegedly one reason why he was transferred to the post in Great Britain. From here, Monteiro had a decisive influence on the pro-Allied policy within Portuguese neutrality in World War II , for example when Portugal joined the Non-Interference Committee and the establishment of an Allied base in the Azores .
From 1943 until his death in 1955, Monteiro worked at various universities while he was also a member of the State Council and the Câmara Corporativa . In the economy, Monteiro was involved in Refinaria Colonial in Alcântara and Sena Sugar Estates in Mozambique .
family
Armindo Monteiro is the father of Luís de Sttau Monteiro , a writer and leader of the democratic opposition to the Estado Novo. Other children of Armindo and his wife Lúcia Rebelo Cancela Infante de Lacerda are Ana Maria Infante de Lacerda de Sttau Monteiro , Miguel Infante de Lacerda de Sttau Monteiro and Maria Isabel Infante de Lacerda Sttau Monteiro .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sttau Monteiro, Armindo Rodrigues de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monteiro, Armindo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vila Velha de Ródão , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1955 |
| Place of death | Barrão , Loures |