Constancia de la Mora
Constancia de la Mora (born January 28, 1906 in Madrid , † January 27, 1950 in Guatemala ) was a Spanish communist and feminist .
Constancia de la Mora came from a Spanish family of politicians and diplomats. She was the granddaughter of the Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Maura Montaner (1853-1925) and niece of Miguel Mora (1887-1971), MP and Minister of the Second Spanish Republic . She was married to Manuel Bolin, a Spanish nobleman, from whom she later separated in order to remarry. She was the first woman who secularly remarried in Catholic Spain. Her second husband was Ignacio Hidalgo Cisneros , general in the Republican Air Force. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War she traveled with him to the USSR , where Stalin promised to provide arms aid to Spain.
Constancia de la Mora worked as an interpreter for the Military Council of the International Brigades in Albacete from October 26, 1936 . Members of the Military Council, which emerged from the Organizing Committee for the Establishment of the International Brigades, were Vital Gaymann (Vidal), Vittorio Vidali and Karol Świerczewski (General Walter).
Mora was part of the Spanish Republic and oversaw the foreign press during the Spanish Civil War . After the war ended, she fled to France and then went to the USA to promote the republic.
In 1950 she died in a car accident in Guatemala on the Panamericana .
literature
- Soledad Fox Constancia de la Mora in War and Exile, 2007, ISBN 1845191668
- Constantia de la mora "Double splendid" 1940
- Constancia de la Mora "Double Shine" (Original title: Doble Esplendor, Editorial Atlante, Mexico,) Translation from Spanish by Olla Ewert, Dietz Verlag Berlin (GDR) 1949, license number 1 LSV 7353
Web links
- Un libro repasa la vida de las hermanas Constancia y Marichu de la Mora, divididas por la Guerra Civil. January 2, 2006, Retrieved July 22, 2013 (Spanish).
- Black and white photograph
- Black and white photograph
Individual evidence
- ^ Antony Beevor : The Spanish Civil War , 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-442-15492-0 , page 208
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mora, Constancia de la |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish communist and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1950 |
| Place of death | Guatemala |