Manuel Valdés Larrañaga

Manuel Valdés Larrañaga (born April 16, 1909 in Bilbao , † October 17, 2001 in Madrid ) was a Spanish sports official, fascist and diplomat .

Life

Manuel Valdés Larrañaga married María de la Piedad Colon de Carvajal (1915-1993) and became Marqués consorte de Avella. He was an experienced swimmer, was several times Spanish champion in various swimming disciplines and a member of the Spanish national swimming team and water polo . Larrañaga studied at the School of Architecture in Madrid and received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Barcelona. He was a close friend of the Basque architect José Manuel Aizpurúa .

Larrañaga was politically active on the side of the monarchists. In September 1933, he and Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera , the Falange Española. After the coup of the Unión Militar Española in July 1936, he was arrested by the executive of the Second Republic in the Cárcel Modelo de Madrid . In 1939, Francisco Franco began his career in the state apparatus . He was initially a volunteer with the Azul Division . He soon joined the Junta del Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Fascist Estates Associations) and became dean of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid

In 1950 Larrañaga was briefly president of the Real Federación Española de Fútbol . He was then appointed ambassador for the next twenty years, first in Santo Domingo (1951–1953), then in Caracas (1954–1961), Cairo (1962–1963), Kuwait City (1964–1968) and finally in Beirut ( 1968–1970), where he was also accredited by the government in Nicosia. In 1971 Francisco Franco appointed him to his Council of State. Here Larrañaga was also active in the Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco , a fascist foundation.

Publications

• De la Falange al Movimiento, 1936-1952, Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco, 1994, 391 pp

Web links

• detailed biography (span.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El País , February 25, 2009, Comunidad El Pais - La memoria histórica como proyecto social y cultural - Manuel Valdés Larrañaga ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel Aznar Zubigaray	Spanish envoy to the Dominican Republic from 1951 to 1953	Alfonso Merry del Val y Alzola
José Antonio de Sangróniz y Castro	Spanish envoy to Venezuela 1954 to 27 Dec 1962	Matías Vega Guerra
José Felipe de Alcover y Sureda	Spanish Ambassador to Egypt Dec. 27, 1962 to 1963	Miguel María de Lojendio e Irure
	Spanish Ambassador to Kuwait July 28, 1964 to March 21, 1968	Fernando Schwartz
Emilio García Gómez	Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon March 21, 1968 to April 17, 1970	José Luis Jordana de Pozas Fuentes