Enrique de la Mata Gorostizaga

Enrique de la Mata Gorostizaga

Enrique de la Mata Gorostizaga (born September 20, 1933 in Teruel , † September 6, 1987 in Rome ) was a Spanish lawyer , politician and diplomat . He worked in a transitional government after Francisco Franco's death in 1976/1977 as Minister for Trade Union Relations and from 1979 to 1982 as a member of the Spanish Parliament . From 1981 to 1987 he served as president of the League of Red Cross Societies , which during his tenure was called the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies .

Life

Enrique de la Mata was founded in 1933 in Teruel born and gained at the University of Madrid with a degree in law . He then worked as a notary from 1960 . From 1967 to 1969 he served as President of the Assembly of the Spanish Red Cross (Cruz Roja Española) and then until 1975 as Director of the Spanish Social Insurance (Seguridad Social) .

After Francisco Franco's death in 1975, and with it the end of his dictatorship , he worked from July 5, 1976 to July 4, 1977 in a transitional government that was in office until the first free elections as Minister for Trade Union Relations, during which time he was responsible contributed to the readmission of trade unions in Spain . From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the bourgeois party Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD), which, in Adolfo Suárez, was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Spain to the Spanish Parliament .

In 1981 he took over from Nigerian Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin as president of the League of Red Cross Societies , which was renamed the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies two years after he took office . In 1985 he was confirmed in office for four more years, but died of a heart attack in Rome in 1987 at the age of 53 . The office of President of the League was temporarily taken over by Kurt Bolliger , who, as President of the Swiss Red Cross, was ex officio Vice-President of the League. Enrique de la Mata Gorostizaga's successor was the lawyer Mario Villarroel Lander from Venezuela .

Enrique de la Mata Gorostizaga was married and the father of four sons and three daughters.

literature

• Mata Gorostizaga, Enrique de la. In: Manuel Ángel Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel Menéndez, Ignacio Fontes: Quién es quién. Sus señorías los diputados: Atlas de la democracia parlmentaria española. Foca, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-95440-25-3 , p. 506