Santiago Casares Quiroga
Santiago Casares Quiroga (born May 8, 1884 in La Coruña , † February 17, 1950 in Paris ) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) .
biography
Lawyer and opponent of King Alfonso XIII.
After studying law , he worked as a lawyer.
Together with Antonio Villar Ponte, he was the founder of the Republican Organization for the Autonomy of Galicia ( Organización Republicana Gallega Autónoma ) in 1929 and then chairman of the Republican Federation of Galicia that emerged from this ( Federación Republicana Gallega ). As such, he was one of the signatories of the Pact of San Sebastián on August 17, 1930 , a platform that united the main republican opposition parties to end the monarchy under King Alfonso XIII. to reach.
In December 1930 he was sent to the garrison town of Jaca as a delegate of the National Revolutionary Committee ( Comité Revolucionario Nacional ) in order to prepare an uprising with the republican-minded officers around Captain Fermín Galán Rodríguez, which aimed at the abdication of the king and the proclamation of the republic would have. However, he did not reach Jaca in time, so that the uprising was suppressed after a day without success. He was then arrested himself.
Member of Parliament, Minister and Prime Minister during the Second Republic
With the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931, after his release as a member of the Political Committee of the Republic ( Comité político de la República ), he was appointed Minister of the Navy ( Ministro de Marina ) of the government of Niceto Alcalá Zamora . October 1931 belonged. During this time, he was also acting Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) for three days in July 1931, while the incumbent was absent .
On June 28, 1931, he was also elected a member of the Congress of Deputies ( Congreso de los Diputados ), in which he represented the interests of the La Coruña constituency until the outbreak of civil war in July 1936 .
In the cabinet of Alcalá Zamora's successor Manuel Azaña , who was his personal friend, he was also Interior Minister from October 14, 1931 to September 12, 1933 in the two-year socialist - republican period ( Bienio socialista-republicano ). In the Azaña government, from December 17, 1931 to March 31, 1932, he also took on the post of incumbent communications minister ( Ministro de Comunicaciones ) and from July 14 to September 12, 1933 that of the incumbent Minister of Justice ( Ministro de Justicia ).
In 1934 he united his FRG, now renamed the Galician Republican Party ( Partido Republicano Gallego ), with the Acción Republicana of Azaña and other smaller parties to the Republican Left ( Izquierda Republicana ), which later became part of the Popular Front ( Frente Popular ).
Prime Minister Azaña then appointed him Minister for Public Works ( Ministro de Obras Públicas ) on February 19, 1936 in his second cabinet, to which he was a member until May 10, 1936. During this time he was again acting Minister of the Interior from mid-April 1936. He also retained these offices in the subsequent three-day cabinet of Augusto Barcia Trelles .
On May 13, 1936, after the election of Azaña as President of the Second Republic, he finally succeeded Barcia Trelles himself as Prime Minister of Spain ( Presidente del Gobierno ) and formed a government that was in office until July 19, 1936, in which he was also the Office of the Minister of War ( Ministro de Guerra ) took over. In May 1936, he was acting Minister of the Interior for two days and from June 22 to July 7, 1936 acting Foreign Minister (Ministro de Estado).
During his tenure, which was on June 28, 1936 referendum on the autonomy of Galicia held that after the referenda on the status of Catalonia and the Basque Country was the third autonomy referendum during the Second Republic.
Two days after the military revolt of July 17, 1936, led by General Francisco Franco , which sparked the Spanish Civil War , he resigned as Prime Minister on July 19, 1936 and was replaced by Diego Martínez Barrio after he failed to end the military revolt . His attitude during this time was presented differently in many history books than in the memories of his daughter, the French actress and later lover of Albert Camus , Maria Casarès . While the majority of historians argue that he refused to hand out weapons to the labor movement and thus enabled Franco's subsequent victory (he was nicknamed Civilón during this period ), his daughter denied this.
Shortly after the fall of Catalonia, he went into exile with Azaña and Martínez Barrio in France, where he died in 1950.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Members of Parliament from 1810 to 1977
- ^ "Second Anniversary" , article in TIME magazine from July 25, 1938
- ^ Main Events Of The Spanish Civil War
- ↑ News of his death in TIME magazine on February 27, 1950
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Augusto Barcia Trelles |
Prime Minister of Spain 1936 |
Diego Martínez Barrio |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casares Quiroga, Santiago |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prime Minister of Spain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Coruña |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1950 |
| Place of death | Paris |