Julián_Zugazagoitia

Julián Zugazagoitia

Julián Zugazagoitia

Spanish journalist and politician

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Zugazagoitia and the second or maternal family name is Mendieta.

Julián Zugazagoitia Mendieta (5 February 1899, Bilbao – 9 November 1940, Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and politician.

Zugazagoitia in 1925

A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was close to Indalecio Prieto and the editor of the El Socialista in mid-1930s.[1][2] In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War he wrote against the paseos and denounced the anarchist and communist secret prisons (checas).[3] In October 1936 he wrote in El Socialista: "The life of an adversary who surrenders is unassailable; no combatant can dispose of that life. That is not how the rebels behave. It matters not. It is how we should behave.".[4] In May 1937 he was appointed by the prime minister, Juan Negrín, as minister of Interior of the Second Spanish Republic.[5] Because of the abduction and killing of Andreu Nin, he dismissed the Director General of Security, Antonio Ortega and threatened to resign as minister.[6]

In 1938, he supported the dissolution by force of the anarchist controlled, Consejo de Aragon.[7] He was replaced in May 1938,[8] but in April 1938, he was appointed secretary of the ministry of defence.[9] After the war, he fled to France, but in 1940 was arrested by the Gestapo, handed over to Spain and executed.[10] In France he wrote a history about the Spanish Civil War: Historia de la guerra en España, published in 1940.[11]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.208
  2. [2]
    Julius Ruiz (2007). "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936". Journal of Contemporary History. 42 (1): 100. doi:10.1177/0022009407071625. S2CID 159559553.
  3. [3]
    Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.393
  4. [4]
    Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.232
  5. [5]
    Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 651
  6. [6]
    Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.262
  7. [7]
    Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 296
  8. [8]
    Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.411
  9. [9]
    Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. pp.284-285
  10. [10]
    Beevor, Antony. (2006). The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. p.413
  11. [11]
    Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.412

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