Luis Orgaz Yoldi

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Luis Orgaz Yoldi (ca.1941)

Luis Orgaz Yoldi (born May 28, 1881 in Vitoria-Gasteiz , † January 31, 1946 in Madrid ) was Alto Comisario de España en Marruecos ( Spanish Morocco ) in 1936 and from 1941 to 1945 .

biography

Since 1919 Orgaz was used in the protection army in Spanish Morocco. In November 1923 he was promoted to colonel. In December 1923 he was appointed to the Morocco office in the office of the President of the Government in Madrid. In March 1926, Orgaz returned to Tetuan for a month and then returned to Madrid as Colonel of the Inspección General de Intervención Militar , where he stayed until June 1927, when he was promoted to Brigadier General and transferred to the Dirección General de Marruecos y Colonias .

Tertulia de Francisco Franco

During his stays in Madrid, Orgaz was, together with the Protectorate military officers José Millán Astray , Emilio Mola , José Enrique Varela and Juan Yagüe , the regulars ' brother of Francisco Franco . Franco was under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera , which contradicted the monarchist constitution, but by King Alfonso XIII. was approved, promoted to general on February 3, 1926.

In mid-June 1931, Orgaz and General Emilio Barrera y Luyando (1869–1936) were placed under house arrest in connection with a coup attempt by José Sanjurjo . Orgaz was deported to the Canary Islands in 1931 and remained there until he was transferred to Madrid prison in July 1932. There he was serving a sentence for conspiracy against the republic. In May 1933 he was released on condition that he remain in Madrid.

After the election victory of the Frente Popular in February 1936, Orgaz was deported again to the Canary Islands due to conspiratorial activities, where he had freedom of movement.

Putsch of the Unión Militar Española

During the putsch of the Unión Militar Española on July 18, 1936, he was an unconditional supporter of Francisco Franco . After Franco was flown to Tetuan by MI6 , Orgaz took command of the Canary Islands . At the end of September 1936 Orgaz flew to Spanish Morocco, became Alto Comisario de España en Marruecos and successfully organized the recruitment of Moroccan mercenaries who were quickly used up in Spain.

In November 1936, the Varela attack on Madrid failed. Whereupon Franco reorganized his army: Emilio Mola got the supreme command over the putschists in the north and Orgaz got the supreme command over the putschists on the front of Madrid. By decree of December 18, 1936, Orgaz was promoted to division general and was responsible for raising troops, giving instructions and reorganizing. With arms help from the German Reich and Fascist Italy, the putschists attempted a renewed attack on Madrid, in which Orgaz was injured on Christmas 1936 and had to surrender his command. From November 1938 until the end of the civil war in April 1939, Orgaz was given supreme command over the putschists in eastern Spain.

Captain General de Cataluña

With a decree of May 15, 1939, Orgaz became lieutenant general . From 1939 to 1941 Orgaz headed the Capitanía General de Cataluña as Capitán General de Cataluña . Orgaz was one of the 30 generals who were paid through Juan March for Spain's non-entry into World War II .

Alto Comisario de España en Marruecos

On June 15, 1940, the war economy had a favorable moment for the troops of the Nazi-fascist axis. Therefore Orgaz on the orders of Franco, which until then had international city , Tangier occupy.

After the successful landing of US troops in North Africa, Orgaz got in touch with George S. Patton .

monarchist

With the failure of the axis in World War II, attempts were made to restore the monarchies in Greece and Spain. The son of Alfonso XIII, Don Juan de Borbón , the father of Juan Carlos and the father-in-law of Sophia of Greece was to become king in Spain. In June 1943 Orgaz sent another letter to Franco to this effect. Franco disapproved of this attempt and induced his minister, José Luis Arrese Magra , to reply to those in favor of the proposal with impeachment letters.

On September 8, 1943, Orgaz judged with seven other Lieutenant General: Varela, Fidel Dávila Arrondo , José Solchaga Zala (1881-1953), Alfredo Kindelán Duany , Andrés Saliquet Zumeta , José Monasterio Ituarte (1882 Palma de Mallorca-1952 Valencia,) and Miguel Ponte y Manso de Zúñiga sent a petition to Franco, in which they asked, in the face of other defeats, to realign Spanish politics. The petition was brought by Varela, for which Franco took his command staff. Franco did not show it, but acted according to Niccolò Machiavelli : "In a family, dispute the inheritance of the son is more dangerous for the prince than to have the father executed."

General Staff

In March 1945 Orgaz was replaced by Varela as Alto Comisario de España en Marruecos and appointed to the General Staff in Madrid, where he officially died of an embolism . In Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) nº 119 of April 29, 1946, the law of April 27, 1946 was published in which the widow of Orgaz was granted a pension.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stanley George Payne: Franco and Hitler. Spain, Germany and World War II. Yale University Press, New Haven u. London 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-12282-4 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google book search).