Manuel Serafín Pichardo Peralta

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Manuel S. Pichardo ( Madrid Cómico , 1890)

Manuel Serafín Pichardo Peralta (born October 1, 1865 in Santa Clara , † March 13, 1937 in Madrid ) was a Cuban publisher and ambassador .

Life

Manuel Serafín Pichardo Peralta studied law and practiced the profession of lawyer . From 1885 to 1909 he published the illustrated El Figaro with Carlos de Montal .

From 1910 he served as a diplomat; his first post was Madrid. From 1933 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Madrid. At the end of his tenure as ambassador in Madrid, the Spanish Civil War fell . The government of the Second Spanish Republic accepted that the Cuban embassy would grant asylum. It was intended to naturalize some of the asylum seekers in Cuba. The pianist and composer Emilio Granet and the violinist René Izquierdo were brought to Paris. Manuel Serafín Pichardo Peralta reported the situation over the radio to the Cuban representative at the League of Nations in Geneva .

Individual evidence

  1. He did not die in "July 1937", but on March 13, 1937:
  2. Antonio M. Moral Roncal, Diplomacia, humanitarismo y espionaje en la Guerra Civil española, Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2008, 619 p. 2008 p. 218.
predecessor Office successor
Mario García Kohly Cuban Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Madrid from
1933 to July 1937
Ramon Estalella y Pujolá (born June 9, 1893 in Madrid, † 1986)