Isidro Fabela

This article is about a Mexican politician. The administrative unit named after him can be found under Municipio Isidro Fabela .

Isidro Fabela Alfaro (born  June 29, 1882 in Atlacomulco , †  August 12, 1964 in Cuernavaca ) was a Mexican lawyer , politician , diplomat and writer . He worked from 1913 to 1915 as Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores in the government of Venustiano Carranza and from 1942 to 1945 as Governor of the State of México . From 1946 to 1952 he was a judge on the International Court of Justice .

Life

Isidro Fabela

Isidro Fabela graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with a degree in law in 1908 , where he was professor of international law from 1921 . From 1911 he worked in various public offices at local, regional and national level, including from 1913 to 1915 in the government of Venustiano Carranza as Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores , a position comparable to a foreign minister . From 1913 on he held various diplomatic offices in the Mexican embassies in Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Uruguay , Germany (1920), Spain , Italy , France and with the League of Nations in Geneva . From 1942 to 1945 he served as governor of the state of México . After he was initially elected Senator in 1946 , he did not take up this office, as he was appointed judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague that same year . He worked on this until 1952.

Isidro Fabela founded two periodicals with the newspapers “La Verdad” (1910) and “El Puebla” (1914) and published a number of books on the history of the Mexican Revolution . In his house in San Ángel , which he left to the Mexican government, the “Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela” was set up in 1958. It is a historical monument and contains, among other things, a library , an archive and a large art collection owned by Fabelas. Isidro Fabela was awarded the Medalla Belisario Domínguez del Senado de la República in 1960 , which has been awarded since 1954 and is the highest honor awarded by the Mexican government, and also received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The University's Law Faculty awards the Isidro Fabela Medal ( Medalla Isidro Fabela ) to people who work for the preservation of regional culture and democracy.

Fabela and the annexation of Austria by Germany

Isidro-Fabela-Promenade, Vienna, UNO-City

From 1937 to 1940 Isidro Fabela was head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva. In this function, on behalf of the Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, on March 19, 1938, he presented an official protest note that he had formulated against the occupation of Austria by the German armed forces . Mexico was the only country in the world that officially protested before the League of Nations against the annexation of Austria known as the " Anschluss ".

To commemorate this act, Mexikoplatz in the Vienna district of Leopoldstadt was named after the end of the war . The Isidro-Fabela-Promenade in Vienna-Donaustadt , in the immediate vicinity of the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations , is named after the diplomat who wrote and handed over the protest note . Fabela is next to Gilberto Bosques , the savior of numerous Austrian people persecuted during the time of National Socialism , the second Mexican diplomat to receive this honor.

Works (selection)

• Por un mundo libre. Mexico City 1943
• Historia diplomática de la Revolución Mexicana. Two volumes. Mexico City 1958/1959
• Intervención. Mexico City 1959
• Mis memorias de la Revolución. Mexico City 1977

literature

• Isidro Fabela Alfaro. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 280
• Fabela (Alfaro), Isidro. In: Roderic Ai Camp: Mexican Political Biographies. 1935-1993. Third edition. University of Texas Press, Austin 1995, ISBN 0-292-71181-6 , p. 225

Individual evidence

1. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Austrians in Exile: Mexico 1938-1947. Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-216-30685-2 .

Web links

• Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela (Spanish, with pictures)