Manuel Fal Conde

Manuel Fal Conde

Manuel Fal Conde (* 1894 in Higuera de la Sierra ; † 1975 in Seville ) was the leader of the Carlism movement in 1936 and, in this capacity, was instrumental in the overthrow of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War .

Life

The Andalusian lawyer Fal Conde was already involved in 1932 in the pronuniciamento of General José Sanjurjo Sacanell , which was directed against the "anti-church dictatorship of Azañas " with unclear goals in the event of success. For this purpose, Fal Conde went to prison, where he was able to win Colonel José Enrique Varela, a first-class instructor for the Carlist militia ("Requetés") trained in Navarre, and was immediately given amnesty again, which is why he again in April 1936 with Sanjurjo against the Second Republic conspired.

Shortly before the pronuniciamento with which the Spanish Civil War began, Fal Conde was approached by the leader General Mola about the involvement of the Carlist in the uprising. With his calls for a revolt under the monarchist flag and the dissolution of all parties after a successful revolt, Fal Conde almost messed up the schedule. He was considered a hardliner who was hardly prepared to compromise when it came to the implementation of the Carlist political ideas. By the time the survey began on July 17, 1936 at 5 p.m. in Spanish Morocco , Fal Conde's consent to strike had been obtained on the basis of a compromise made by Sanjurjo.

Fal Conde, however, no longer chaired the traditionalist movement for long. On December 8, 1936, the Carlists founded a "Royal Military Academy" to train young officers without consulting Franco . Franco was indignant about this and announced that he saw the establishment of the military academy as an attempt at a coup. Finally, Franco asked Fal Conde, who he thought was the originator of this plan, to leave the country within 48 hours. Fal Conde went to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon . Franco is said to have said later to a German envoy that he would have loved to have Fal Conde shot if this had not had any impact on the morale of the Carlist banderas at the front.

Under his successor, Jose Luis Zamanillo the carlistische movement with the 1937 Falangist movement in the " Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS " forcibly united, the state party to the Spanish Civil War subsequent Franco dictatorship of Francisco Franco .