Juan Beigbeder

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Juan Luis Beigbeder Atienza (born March 31, 1888 in Cartagena , † June 6, 1957 in Madrid ) was Spanish Foreign Minister from August 9, 1939 to October 16, 1940.

biography

Military attaché in Berlin

In the spring of 1936, Colonel Beigbeder was a military attaché at the Spanish embassy in Berlin. At the end of February 1936, Beigbeder introduced the Spanish military José Sanjurjo to the German admiral and resistance fighter Wilhelm Canaris on the occasion of the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Manuel Azaña from the Frente Popular , who had ruled since February 1936, deposed Franco as commander in chief of the armed forces. To prevent coups, Franco was installed as military governor of the Canary Islands in Santa Cruz de Tenerife , while Beigbeder was transferred to the Office for Native Affairs in Tetuán.

Unión Militar Espanola

Beigbeder was one of the putschists of the Unión Militar Espanola (UME). Franco had been in Santa Cruz de Tenerife since March 12, 1936. Luis Bolín brought Franco to Tetuán on July 19, 1936 with a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide operated by a British charter company . On July 22, 1936, Francisco Franco and Juan Beigbeder sent a telegram to the military attaché Erich Kühlental, who was responsible for Spain (1934–1938 military attaché in Paris), asking for ten transport aircraft. Colonel Saenz de Buruaga, commander of the Regulares de Tetuan , brought Johannes Bernhardt to Franco, who asked Bernhardt if he would like to fly to Berlin with the Lufthansa Ju 52, which had been confiscated by the putschists in Gran Canaria .

High Commissioner in Spanish Morocco

From April 16, 1937 to 1939, Beigbeder was High Commissioner in Spanish Morocco

Foreign minister

Beigbeder's tenure as Foreign Minister began shortly before the German invasion of Poland. Beigbeder regretfully confirmed war in Poland the day after France and Great Britain declared war. Franco declared Spain strictly neutral and expressed his hope that the war would end before it turned into an unpredictable tragedy. Beigbeder and Interior Minister Súñer had already promised the German Reich neutrality.

In October 1940 Franco handed over the post of foreign minister to his brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Súñer .

traditionalist

In 1944 Beigbeder appeared as a representative of Antonio Aranda's monarchist tendency .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secret mission for Guillermo . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1976 ( online - August 23, 1976 ).
  2. Federal Archives, Kühlental, Erich
  3. Files on German Foreign Policy (ADAP), Series D (1937-1945), Vol. III (1951), p. 5 or Juan Carlos Pereira: Introdución al estudio de la política exterior de Espanja. (Siglos XIX y XX). Madrid 1983, p. 171.
  4. You will win, but you will not win . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1986 ( online - July 21, 1986 ).
  5. ^ Wayne H. Bowen: Spaniards and Nazi Germany. P. 64 ( limited preview in Google Book search).