Francisco Fernández Ordóñez

Francisco Fernández Ordóñez (1988)

Francisco José Fernández Ordóñez (* 1930 in Madrid ; † August 7, 1992 ibid) was a Spanish socialist politician and long-time foreign minister.

Studies and professional career

After studying law at the Complutense University in Madrid and at Harvard University , he became an employee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1959. Still under Franco , he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1973 and President of the National Industrial Institute (INI) in 1974 . For political reasons, however, he resigned in the same year.

Political career

In 1974 he founded the small Social Democratic Party , which in 1977 joined the Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) of then Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez . In 1977 he was appointed Minister of Finance and then Minister of Justice on September 8, 1980. On August 31, 1981, he resigned as Minister of Justice and left the UCD in protest against police attacks. He then founded the small Democratic Action Party. A short time later, however, he joined the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) .

In the elections to parliament ( Cortes Generales ) in 1982 he was elected to the House of Representatives (Congreso de los Diputados). There he represented the interests of the PSOE until his death.

After the election, he was appointed President of the Foreign Trade Bank by Prime Minister Felipe González on October 28, 1982. On July 5, 1985, he was appointed Foreign Minister in the González cabinet. During his tenure, Spain joined the European Community in 1986 . He was also the first Spanish President of the Council of the European Community in the first half of 1989 . He held the post of Foreign Minister until shortly before his death and was replaced by Javier Solana on June 22, 1992 due to his health .

In November 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Doctor honoris causa of the Polytechnic University of Valencia .

literature

• Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1992 from September 14, 1992, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Santiago Delgado Fernández, Pilar Sánchez Mallas: "Francisco Fernández Ordóñez. Un político para la España necesaria" ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Biblioteca Nueva, 2007, ISBN 84-9742-619-3

Web links

• Biography on the homepage of the Francisco Fernández Ordóñez Foundation
• Biography in biografias y vidas.com
• La Victoria Socialista de 1982 ( Memento from June 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduardo Carriles	Minister of Finance of Spain July 4, 1977–6. April 1979	Jaime García Añoveros
Íñigo Cavero	Minister of Justice of Spain 9 September 1980–1. September 1981	Pío Cabanillas Gallas
Fernando Morán López	Foreign Minister of Spain July 5, 1985–16. June 1992	Javier Solana