Raimundo Fernández Villaverde

Raimundo Fernández Villaverde (picture by Christian Franzen)

Raimundo Fernández Villaverde y García del Rivero , Margrave (Marqués) de Pozo Rubio (born January 20, 1848 in Madrid , † July 15, 1905 ibid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .

Life

Studies and professional career

After acquiring the university entrance qualification ( Bachillerato ) at the Instituto de San Isidro , he completed a law degree at the Universidad Central in Madrid , which he graduated with a Licenció in 1869 . After earning a doctorate in law in commercial law and budget law , he was finally appointed associate professor at the Universidad Central.

In 1877 he was appointed General Director of Local Government ( Administración Local ) before he became General Director of the Special Service of State Administration ( Intervención General de la Administración del Estado ) for two years the following year .

MP and Minister

He began his political career on August 24, 1872 when he was elected as a member of the Conservative Party ( Partido Conservador de Nicaragua ) to Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Diputados ), where he consistently represented the constituency of Pontevedra until his death .

Caricature (1900)

On March 22, 1880, he was appointed undersecretary of state in the Ministry of the Treasury, where he worked until the formation of the cabinet of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on February 8, 1881. After being appointed civil governor of Madrid on March 31, 1884, he was appointed minister of the interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) for the first time on July 13, 1885 and was a member of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo's fourth cabinet until November 27, 1885. In particular, as minister he had to justify measures previously adopted by the government that had led to retail uprisings in Madrid.

Cánovas del Castillo then appointed him after the Conservative Party regained power on July 5, 1890 as Minister for Mercy Petitions and Justice ( Ministro de Gracia y Justicia ). As such, he belonged to the government until November 23, 1891, then because of his political closeness to Francisco Silvela Le vielleuze, after his disagreements with Francisco Romero Robledo , he was Minister of the Interior again from June 25 to November 30, 1892 Cánovas was.

In the following years he did not hold any more important offices and was also subject to Silvela in the succession to the chairmanship of the Conservative Party after Cánova's death on August 8, 1897.

On March 4, 1899, however, he was appointed Minister of the Treasury ( Ministro de Hacienda ) in the cabinet of Silvela Le Villeuze. In this first government after the “disaster” of 1898 , he submitted the budget law and the budget for the 1900 budget on June 17, 1899 . During his membership in the government, which lasted until July 6, 1900, he was also the last colonial minister ( Ministro Ultramar ) until April 25, 1899 .

President of Parliament and Prime Minister

Raimundo Fernández Villaverde (painting by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida in the Congreso de los Diputados, 1901)

On November 20, 1900 he was first elected President of Parliament ( Presidente de la Càmara ) and remained in office until April 25, 1901. Prime Minister Silvela Le Villeuze appointed him to his second cabinet as Minister of the Treasury on December 6, 1902, but replaced him during the term of office on March 25, 1903 after there were differences of opinion between them over the restructuring of the fleet and the resulting effects on the budget balance came. He was then again President of Parliament from May 19, 1903 to September 12, 1904.

On July 20, 1903, he was appointed as Silvela's successor for the first time as Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) of a transitional government, but only held this office until December 5, 1903 and was then replaced by Antonio Maura Montaner .

As the successor to Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero , he was again Prime Minister on January 27, 1905. However, this time he had to resign after only five months in office on June 23, 1905, after he wanted to dissolve parliament to limit the opposition, which was rejected by both the Senate on June 17 and the Congress on June 20, 1905. Less than a month after his resignation, he died in Madrid.

Honorary positions

On April 10, 1888 he became a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas and took armchair 3 there until his death. During this time he gave a celebratory speech on May 19, 1889 ( Memento from June 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) on the subject of "Consideraciones histórico-críticas acerca del sufragio universal como órgano de la representación política en las sociedades modernas" (Historical-critical considerations on universal suffrage as an organ of political representation in modern societies). Furthermore, he became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy ( Real Academia Española ) on December 15, 1898 , where he took the chair ( Sillón ) g, which he was only able to officially occupy on November 23, 1902.

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Web links

• Biography on the homepage of the Spanish Prime Ministers ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Biography (spanish)
• The cabinets during the reign of Alfonso XII. (1874-1884 - La Restauració)
• The cabinets during the reign of Maria Christina of Austria (1885-1902 - La Restauració)
• The governments during the reign of Alfonso XIII. (1902-1931)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
2. ^ Terms of office as President of Parliament
3. ↑ Members of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas - Armchair 3 ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Members of the Real Academia Española - Sillón g ( Memento of the original of December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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
Francisco Silvela Le vielleuze	Prime Minister of Spain 1902 - 1903	Antonio Maura Montaner
Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero	Prime Minister of Spain 1905	Eugenio Montero Ríos