Pedro Morenés

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Pedro Morenés in September 2012

Pedro Morenés y Álvarez de Eulate (born September 17, 1948 in Las Arenas , Getxo ) is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular . He was the Spanish Defense Minister from 2011 to 2016 and has been the Spanish Ambassador to the United States of America since March 2017 .

life and career

Morenés is the second son of the 4th Vice Count of Aleson and belongs to the Spanish nobility. He studied law at the Opus dikes University of Navarra and business administration at the Jesuit - University of Deusto . He later specialized in European Studies at the Bremen Institute for Shipping Economics . From 1974 he worked as an entrepreneur in the shipbuilding industry. In the 1980s he worked for a law firm and in 1988 joined the shipyard group Astilleros Españoles , where he headed the International Projects division.

1996 appointed him defense minister Eduardo Serra Rexach as Secretary of State to the Spanish Ministry of Defense , where he worked until 2000 and among others, the Spanish troops in Bosnia visited. He then became State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and worked until August 2002 as the security secretary of the Spanish government under the then Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy . He then went to the Ministry of Science and Technology as State Secretary until the end of the legislative period.

After José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's victory in the 2004 elections , Morenés returned to the private sector, became general secretary of the Círculo de Empresarios business association and took up management activities in the shipping and defense industries . In 2011, the new Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called him into his first cabinet .

On December 21, 2011 he was appointed Minister of Defense to succeed Carme Chacón . The personnel met with criticism because Morenés had recently worked for a company that had sold cluster bombs to the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi , who used them against the civilian population . When the Spanish government signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008 , he demanded 40 million euros in compensation for the defense industry. He was also CEO of the defense company MBDA , which produces rockets. As head of the defense department, he was replaced by his party colleague María Dolores de Cospedal on November 4, 2016 .

On March 24, 2017, he was appointed as the successor to Ramón Gil-Casares as the Spanish Ambassador to the USA based in Washington, DC .

Morenés is married and has three children. He belongs to the Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro golf club in Madrid, which is considered to be one of the most exclusive closed men's clubs in Spain. He is Knight of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Zaragoza and Grand Cross holder of various other orders, including the Order of Isabellas the Catholic and the Order for Merit at Sea .

Pedro de Morenés is close to Opus Dei , its membership is speculated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Pedro Morenés, un noble en la corte de Donald Trump. In: La Vanguardia , March 17, 2017, accessed October of the same year.
  2. ↑ Morenes fue consejero de una firma que Vendia bombas de racimo. December 21, 2011, Retrieved December 26, 2011 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Rald Streck: A new goat for vacant gardeners. In: Heise.de , December 24, 2011, accessed October 2017.
  4. ^ Francisco Medina: El cuerpo Funcionario del Opus Dei. In: El Plural , May 22, 2015, accessed October 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Morenés, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morenés y Álvarez de Eulate, Pedro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician of the Partido Popular
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Las Arenas , Getxo