Augusto Barcia Trelles

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Augusto Barcia Trelles (1936)

Augusto Barcia Trelles (born March 5, 1881 in Vegadeo , † June 19, 1961 in Buenos Aires ) was a Spanish historian , politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .

biography

Studies, professional career and member of parliament

After studying law , he worked as a lawyer. In addition, in 1906, despite opposition, he was appointed professor at the chair for the history of socialism and comparative social legislation at the Higher Study Institute ( Escuela de Estudios Superiores ) of the Ateneo de Madrid .

He began his political career on April 9, 1916, when he was first elected member of the Congress of Deputies ( Congreso de los Diputados ), where he was a member of the reform party led by Melquíades Álvarez until the beginning of the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera in September 1923 ( Partido Reformista ) represented the interests of the Almería constituency.

Minister, Prime Minister and member of the government in exile

After the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931, he became ambassador to Uruguay .

He then joined the Republican Left ( Izquierda Republicana ) founded by Manuel Azaña , which he represented in the Congress of Deputies as a representative of the constituency of Almería after the election of November 19, 1933. As such, he showed his support for the state of Catalonia proclaimed by Lluís Companys i Jover in 1934 , in which he defended Companys i Jover and other members of its government in the trial against them. In 1935 he was also chairman of the faction of the Izquierda Republicana in the Cortes for some time .

On February 19, 1936 he was appointed to a government for the first time by Prime Minister Manuel Azaña as Foreign Minister ( Ministro de Estado ).

When he succeeded Azaña himself as Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) on May 10, 1936 , he again retained the post of Foreign Minister in his government, which was only in office for three days, until May 13, 1936.

His successor as Prime Minister, Santiago Casares Quiroga , then appointed him foreign minister from May 13 to July 19, 1936. During this time he was also a delegate to the League of Nations . On July 19, 1936, as Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ), he was a member of the government of Diego Martínez Barrio , which had only been in office for three hours , before he again assumed the office of Foreign Minister in the subsequent cabinet of José Giral Pereira until September 4, 1936.

During the civil war he went into exile , where in April 1946 he was appointed Minister of the Treasury ( Ministro de Hacienda ) in the government in exile of Giral Pereira, of which he was a member until January 1947.

He later worked as a lawyer in Argentina .

Freemasons, honorary posts and writers

Like many politicians of his time, he was a supporter of Freemasonry and as such initially Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge Gran Oriente de España from 1921 to 1922 , and later from 1928 to 1931 the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Freemasons. He was later from December 14, 1932 to June 8, 1933 President of the Ateneo de Madrid .

He was also active as the author of books on legal, political and historical topics:

  • San Martín , 6 volumes
  • El genio político de Inglaterra , (The political spirit of England)
  • La política de no intervención , 1942 (The Politics of Nonintervention)
  • Las ideas económicas de Wagemann , (Ernst Wagemann's economic ideas)
  • Un golpe de Estado internacional , 1944 (An attack on the international state)
  • Mosaico internacional , (International Mosaic)
  • Jovellanos político , ( The politician Jovellanos )
  • El pensamiento vivo de Jovellanos , 1951 (The Life Thoughts of Jovellanos)

literature

  • Homenaje en Memoria de don Augusto Barcia Trelles . Centro Asturiano, Buenos Aires 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
  2. ↑ List of Foreign Ministers ( Memento of December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Delegates to the 16th Ordinary Session of the League of Nations in 1936
  4. ^ Spanish governments in exile from August 1938 to June 1977 ( Memento of March 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Grand Lodge of Spain 1868-1923 ( Memento of November 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ President of the Ateneo de Madrid ( Memento of September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Manuel Azaña Prime Minister of Spain
1936 		Santiago Casares Quiroga
personal data
SURNAME Barcia Trelles, Augusto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barcía Trelles, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish historian, politician, Prime Minister of Spain
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vegadeo
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1961
Place of death Buenos Aires