Lluís Companys i Jover
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| Lluís Companys i Jover | |
| Born | 21 June 1882 El Tarròs, Urgell |
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Lluís Companys i Jover (June 21 1882, El Tarròs, Urgell—October 15 1940, Barcelona) was a Catalan politician and leader of the Esquerra Party (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya). He served as Minister of the Navy of the Second Spanish Republic, and President of Catalan Generalitat de Catalunya in 1933.
When the Spanish Civil War begin in July of 1936 Companys sided with the Republic against the Nationalist rebels and was instrumental in organizing a collaboration between the Central Committee of Anti-Fascist Militias, which was sponsored by his Catalan government, and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), a revolutionary anti-Stalinist Communist party, and Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), an Anarchist Syndicalist trade union. Two years before, on October 6, 1934, Companys had led a Catalan Nationalist uprising against the center and right/wing republican government, and had proclaimed the Catalan State, an action for which he was arrested and shortly after sentenced to thirty years in prison. However, after the 1936 election and the victory of the left-wing coalition Frente Popular, he was set free by the new government. During the war, Companys attempted to maintain the unity of his political coalition, but after the Soviet Union consul, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, threatened that his country would cut off aid to Catalonia, he sacked Andres Nin from his post as minister of Justice in December 1936.
Exiled to France in 1939 after the Civil War, he was arrested and extradited by Nazi German authorities to the Spanish government in September 1940. He was put to death, after a military trial lacking legal guarantees, at Montjuïc Castle. He is buried in the Cementiri del Sud-Oest, near to the castle.
The main stadium used for the 1992 Summer Olympics, located on Montjuïc and currently used by the football club Espanyol, is officially named in his memory.
| Preceded by: Francesc Macià i Llussà | President of Catalonia 1934–1940 | Succeeded by: Josep Irla i Bosch |
| Preceded by: Carles Pi i Sunyer | President of ERC 1936–1940 | Succeeded by: Heribert Barrera |
| Preceded by: Francesc Macià i Llussà | President of ERC 1933–1935 | Succeeded by: Carles Pi i Sunyer |
| Preceded by: (none) | President of Catalan Parliament 1932–1933 | Succeeded by: Joan Casanovas i Maristany |
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| Francesc Macià i Llussà · Lluís Companys i Jover · Carles Pi i Sunyer · Lluís Companys i Jover · Heribert Barrera · Jaume Campabadal · Jordi Carbonell i de Ballester · Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira | |
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