Humberto Delgado

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Memorial monument for Humberto Delgado erected on May 14, 2008 in Porto , Praça Carlos Alberto , by the Portuguese sculptor José Rodrigues .
Monument to Humberto Delgado, O general sem medo, the general without fear. Inaugurated in 1976 in Cela .

Humberto Delgado (born May 15, 1906 in Brogueira , † February 13, 1965 in Olivença ) was a Portuguese general and politician .

Life

He took part in the 1926 military coup . In 1944 he became Director General of the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation and in this capacity founded the Portuguese airline TAP Portugal in 1945 . He later switched to the diplomatic service and became a military attaché in Washington in 1952 . In 1952 he was named the youngest general in the Air Force . At the end of the 1950s, however, he turned away from the authoritarian Salazar regime and was a candidate for the opposition in the 1958 election for president. During his entire tenure, António de Oliveira Salazar was only Prime Minister, formally appointed by the President. Even before the 1958 election, he had refused to accept the office of President. For his part, Delgado had declared in the election campaign that he would be fired if Salazar was elected. This later earned him the honorary name o General sem Medo (the general without fear), under which a monument is dedicated to him in his former place of residence in Cela Velha . The government candidate Américo Tomás won with 76.4% of the votes cast, Delgado received only 23% of the votes. The opposition as well as Delgado himself made charges of electoral fraud, whereupon Delgado was discharged from the army in 1959 . A review of the elections naturally did not take place under Salazar's dictatorship and could not be made up later. Delgado first fled to the Brazilian embassy and later to Brazil . From exile he supported actions of the opposition , u. a. he took responsibility for the hijacking of the passenger ship Santa Maria and in 1964 founded the Patriotic Front for National Liberation ( Frente Patriótica de Libertação Nacional - FPLN ).

The assassination of Humberto Delgado

The political repression of the Salazar dictatorship culminated in 1965 with the murder of Humberto Delgado, who had become a symbol of the anti-Salazarist opposition, and his secretary Arajaryr Campos by the Portuguese secret police . António Rosa Casaco, a PIDE / DGS inspector , was the head of the brigade that planned and carried out the “Operação Outono” during which Humberto Delgado and his secretary were ambushed and murdered on February 13, 1965. Both bodies were found two months later in Villanueva del Fresno near Badajoz near the Portuguese border.

In 1974, after the Carnation Revolution , the body of Humberto Delgado was transferred to the National Pantheon in Lisbon.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bernecker / Pietschmann 2001, p. 115
  2. ↑ Expresso weekly newspaper from June 20, 2006: Rosa Casaco, em entrevista: Como matámos Humberto Delgado - Interview with Rosa Casaco: How we killed Humberto Delgado, accessed on June 11, 2010

Web links

literature

  • Walther L. Bernecker , Horst Pietschmann: History of Portugal. From the late Middle Ages to the present. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-44756-2 ( Beck'sche series 2156 CH Beck Wissen ).
  • Humberto Delgado: A Tirania Portuguesa. Publicações Dom Quixote, Lisbon 1995, ISBN 972-20-1242-8 .
  • Frederico Delgado Rosa: Humberto Delgado - Biografia do General sem Medo. Esfera dos Livros, Lisbon 2008, ISBN 978-989-626108-5 .
  • Pedro Filipe Pina: Humberto Delgado. In: up, Magazine TAP Portugal. No. 13, Novembro 2008, p. 144 (Portuguese / English).
  • Manuel Garcia, Lourdes Maurício: O Caso Delgado. Autópsia da “Operação Outono”. ed.Jornal Expresso, Lisbon 1977.
  • Patrícia McGowan Pinheiro: Misérias do exílio. Os últimos meses de Humberto Delgado. Contra-Regra, Lisbon 1998, ISBN 972-9166-16-1 , Online edition , (Portuguese).
  • José Hermano Saraiva : História de Portugal. 5. Edição. Europa-América, Mem Martins 1998, ISBN 972-103611-0 , pp. 533-537 ( Biblioteca da história 9).
  • História de Portugal. The Origens à Actualidade. Texto Editoral, Lisbon 2000, ISBN 972-47-1687-2 , pp. 216-217.

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personal data
SURNAME Delgado, Humberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Brogueira
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1965
Place of death at Olivença