Julián Grimau

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Julián Grimau García (born February 18, 1911 in Madrid ; † April 20, 1963 ) was a Spanish communist who was sentenced to death and executed despite worldwide protests under Franquism .

Life

He was first in the left-liberal party Izquierda Republicana ( dt .: Republican Left ), later in the Communist Party of Spain PCE until the outbreak of the Spanish civil war . After the coup d'etat crushed the second Spanish republic , he spent the period of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, ​​where his father was a police inspector. During Franquism he went into exile in Latin America. He later moved to France. He became one of the leaders of the Communist Party and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PCE at its 1954 Congress in Prague . From 1959 he lived in hiding in Spain, where he was arrested by the Spanish secret police, brutally tortured and sentenced to death in 1963 for his work in the Spanish civil war. Although global protests has been lodged against the death sentence, Grimau was on April 20 of that year by a peloton of conscripts shot . In 1989 the verdict was revised, repealed and Grimau was finally fully rehabilitated.

memory

In the GDR, Grimau was honored by giving its name to streets and clubs, e.g. B. in Dresden for a main street in the center between the Zwinger and the city ring. The street lost its name after 1990 and its memorial stone was removed.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ JULIÁN GRIMAU, EL ÚLTIMO EJECUTADO DE LA GUERRA CIVIL | Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica. Retrieved November 14, 2018 (European Spanish).
  2. ↑ Daniela Dahn: Yesterday's snow is today's flood. The Unity - One Account , Hamburg 2019, p. 139
personal data
SURNAME Grimau, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimau García, Julián (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish communist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1963
Place of death Madrid