Ramón Lamoneda | |
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| General secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | |
| In office September 1938 – 1942 | |
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| Born | 9 June 1892 Begíjar, Jaén |
| Died | 27 February 1971 (aged 78) Mexico City |
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Ramón Lamoneda (1892–1971) was a Spanish typographer and socialist politician who was the first general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Early life
Lamoneda was born in Begíjar, Jaén, on 9 June 1892. [1] His family moved to Madrid in 1904. [2]
Career
He began his career as a typographer in Madrid and became a member of the Graphic Federation of the General Union of Workers and the Socialist Youth group. [1] Lamoneda went to Belgium in 1913 to attend the courses at the International Socialist School where he studied the work by Centrale d’Éducation Ouvrière. [3] In August 1914 he joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, [1] and Manuel Núñez de Arenas and he were responsible for running of the party's education institution, Central de Educación Socialista, which was founded in 1913 to train future administrators. [3] Lamoneda left the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and joined the Communist Party in the 1920s. [4] However, later he rejoined the Socialist Party. [1] He and Mariano Garcia Cortes edited a socialist magazine entitled Nuestra Palabra. [5]
Lamoneda was a deputy for the Cortes Generales for Granada following the elections in 1933 and 1936. [1] In September 1938 he became the first general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. [6] [7] He was in office until 1942. [6]
Later years and death
In 1946 he went into exile in Mexico where he worked as a type director at various publishing houses. [6] He died in Mexico City on 27 February 1971. [6]
From 1946 to 2009 Lamoneda was not mentioned in the history of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. [2] Lamoneda's membership status was rehabilitated on 12 December 2009 in a ceremony held in Madrid, and his membership card was given to his children. [2]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ramón Lamoneda Fernández". Real Academia de la Historia. 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "En Recuerdo de Ramón Lamoneda" (in Spanish). PSOE. 6 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ a b Jean‐Louis Guereña (2006). "European Influences in Spanish Popular Education: The Case of the Socialist Casa Del Pueblo of Madrid and the Belgian Model (1897–1929)". History of Education. 35 (1): 39–40. doi: 10.1080/00467600500419851. S2CID 143044719.
- ^ Roberto Villa García (2009). "The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada". Journal of Contemporary History. 44 (3): 411. doi: 10.1177/0022009409104116. S2CID 220878908.
- ^ Paul Preston (January 1977). "The Origins of the Socialist Schism in Spain, 1917-31". Journal of Contemporary History. 12 (1): 104. doi: 10.1177/002200947701200105. S2CID 162423505.
- ^ a b c d Abdón Mateos López (2012). "Ramón Lamoneda, un marxista revolucionario en la Secretaría General del PSOE, 1936-1942". Historia del presente (19): 143–154. ISSN 1579-8135.
- ^ Helen Graham (1991). Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-521-39257-0.
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