Ricardo Samper Ibáñez
Ricardo Samper y Ibáñez (born August 25, 1881 in Valencia , † October 27, 1938 in Geneva ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .
biography
Mayor and MP
After studying law at the University of Valencia , which he graduated in 1905, he worked as a lawyer until he was appointed minister in 1933.
He began his political career in 1911 when he was elected a member of the city council ( Concejal ) in his hometown of Valencia . After the First World War , he was re-elected as a city councilor in 1920. At the same time he was Mayor ( Alcalde ) of Valencia between 1920 and 1923 . He was also the editor of the radical daily newspaper El Pueblo (The People) founded by Diego Martínez Barrio . However, during the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera from September 1923 to January 1930, he lost all political offices.
After the proclamation of the Second Republic , he was elected member of parliament ( Congreso de los Diputados ) by Alejandro Lerroux on June 28, 1931 as a representative of the Radical Republican Party ( Partido Republicano Radical ) , where he held the interests until February 16, 1936 of the constituency of Valencia.
Minister and Prime Minister during the Second Republic
On September 12, 1933 Lerroux appointed him as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare ( Ministro de Trabajo y Previsión Social ) in his first cabinet, to which he was a member until October 8, 1933. After the parliamentary elections of November 19, 1933, he was appointed Minister for Industry and Trade ( Ministro de Industrie y Comercio ) by Lerroux after his formation of a second cabinet on December 16, 1933 . He held this office until April 28, 1934.
On April 28, 1934, as successor to Lerroux, he was finally appointed Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) by President Niceto Alcalá Zamora . During his tenure, the amnesty of the participants in the military revolt led by General José Sanjurjo was issued, after which his predecessor Lerroux had refused it. However, he had to resign soon afterwards on October 4, 1934, after which the Confederation of the Autonomous Right ( Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas , CEDA), an alliance of political parties chaired by José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones , collaborated in the Government resigned due to inability to solve social problems.
Lerroux, who succeeded him as Prime Minister on October 4, 1934, again appointed him to his cabinet as Foreign Minister ( Ministro de Estado ). However, he had to resign on November 16, 1934, after the CEDE and War Minister Diego Hidalgo Durán for the general strike of October 5, 1934, the subsequent proclamation of the state of Catalonia by Lluís Companys i Jover and the Mining Revolution ( Revolucion Minera ) in Asturias was partly responsible.
After the civil war began in July 1936, he went into exile in Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
- ↑ "Amnesty by Interregnum" , article in TIME magazine of May 7, 1934
- ^ List of the most important Spanish ministers since 1931
Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Spanish Prime Ministers ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- Biography (spanish)
- Governments during the Second Republic 1931–1939
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Lerroux |
Prime Minister of Spain 1934 |
Alejandro Lerroux |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samper Ibáñez, Ricardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ricardo Samper y Ibáñez |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Spain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valencia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1938 |
| Place of death | Geneva |