Ramón Serrano Súñer
Ramón Serrano Súñer (born September 12, 1901 in Cartagena , † September 1, 2003 in Madrid ) was a fascist Spanish politician . He was the brother-in-law of Francisco Franco and at times his most influential advisor. As such, after the Spanish Civil War , he pushed for greater cooperation with Hitler's Germany .
Political career
After training in law in Italy and Madrid, Serrano Súñer's political career began during the Second Republic in the conservative Catholic party CEDA and its youth organization. In this party he rose to vice-president and was a confidante of the party leader José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones . After the coup he was briefly imprisoned in Modelo prison and then in a clinic in the pro-government capital Madrid. In February 1937 he managed to escape from the clinic in the area controlled by the putschists. From the spring of 1936 he operated the union of political parties with the Falange . After Franco's victory in the civil war, he continued his career and endeavored to shape Spain on the model of Mussolini . In the course of 1941 he became interior minister, foreign minister and general secretary of the Falange at the same time, organized contacts with Adolf Hitler and advocated entry into the war on the side of the Axis powers. Due to his abundance of power, however, he also provoked internal political resistance. On May 5, 1941, he was deposed as Minister of the Interior and replaced by Valentín Galarza Morante . As the Allied victory became more and more likely, Franco deposed him as Foreign Minister on September 3, 1942. His successor was Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa . Serrano Súñer then retired from politics and in 1947 from public life.
memoirs
In his book Between Hendaye and Gibraltar , published in 1949, and again in his memoir Between Silence and Propaganda (1977), Serrano Súñer endeavored to present his policy towards the Axis powers as "clever tactics" with which Spain had prevented through strategic concessions to be forced by Hitler to enter the war. This reading of Spanish politics during the Second World War shaped the Spanish historiography under Franco; but it is now - after more sources have become known - as refuted.
Family life
Serrano Súñer was married to the sister of Franco's wife Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés and thus Franco's brother-in-law . This marriage brought him the nickname Cuñadísimo (dt. About brother-in-law ) after Franco's self-designation as Generalísimo .
He had six children with his wife and an illegitimate daughter with the aristocrat María Sonsoles de Icaza y de León, the politician Carmen Díez de Rivera .
literature
- Carlos Collado Seidel : Franco. General - Dictator - Myth. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-021513-9 , see register, p. 313.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ramón Serrano Súñer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Ramón Serrano Súñer in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Literature by and about Ramón Serrano Súñer at Dialnet (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Antony Beevor (traduit par Jean-François Sené): La Guerre d'Espagne . 3. Edition. No. 31153 . Éditions Calmann-Lévy, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-253-12092-6 , pp. 461, 731 f., 734 f .
- ↑ Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E .: Ramón Serrano Suñer. www.biografiasyvidas.com , accessed April 11, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serrano Súñer, Ramón |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cartagena |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 2003 |
| Place of death | Madrid |