Augusto BarcÃa Trelles
Augusto Barcia Trelles ( born March 5, 1881 in Vegadeo, † June 19, 1961 in Buenos Aires ) was a Spanish historian, politician and Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ).
Biography
Studies, career and deputy
After studying law, he worked as a lawyer. In addition, he was appointed in 1906 despite opposition professor at the Department of History of Socialism and Comparative Social legislation at the Higher Institute study ( Escuela de Estudios Superiores ) of the Ateneo de Madrid.
His political career began on 9 April 1916, the first election for members of the Deputies Congress ( Congreso de los Deputies ), where he first until the beginning of the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera in September 1923 as a member of the out of Melquíades Álvarez Reform Party ( Partido reform Ista ) represented the interests of the constituency Almería.
Minister, Prime Minister and member of the government in exile
After the proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931, he was Ambassador to Uruguay.
After that he joined, founded by Manuel Azaña Republican Left ( Izquierda Republicana ), which he in turn acted as representative of the constituency of Almería after the election of November 19, 1933 Deputies Congress. As such, he showed his support for the 1934 proclaimed by Lluís Companys i Jover State Catalonia, in which he defended Companys i Jover and other members of his government in the run against this process. In 1935 he was also chairman of the Group of Izquierda Republicana in the Cortes for some time.
On February 19, 1936, he was first appointed by Prime Minister Manuel Azaña as Foreign Minister ( Ministro de Estado ) in a government.
When he was on 10 May 1936 as a successor of Azaña even Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno ), he retained in his present government, however, only three days until May 13, 1936, in turn, the Office of the Secretary of State.
His successor as Prime Minister, Santiago Casares Quiroga, appointed him then from 13 May to 19 July 1936 as well as Foreign Minister. During this time he was also a delegate to the League of Nations next. On July 19, 1936, he served as Minister of the Interior ( Ministro de Gobernación ) Member of only three hours in office Diego Martínez Barrio government before he again assumed the position of foreign minister in the next cabinet of José Giral Pereira to 4 September 1936.
During the Civil War he went into exile, where he was appointed in April 1946 to the Secretary of the Treasury ( Ministro de Hacienda ) in the exile government of Giral Pereira, to which he belonged until January 1947.
Later he worked as a lawyer in Argentina.
Freemasons, honorary offices and writer
Like many politicians of his time, he also was a supporter of Freemasonry and, as such, first from 1921 to 1922 Grand Master of the Masonic lodge of Gran Oriente de España, and later from 1928 to 1931 Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Freemasons. Later he was on 14 December 1932 to the June 8, 1933 President of the Ateneo de Madrid.
In addition, he worked as a writer of books on jurisprudence, political and historical themes:
- San Martín, 6 volumes
- El genio de Inglaterra político, ( The political spirit of England )
- La política de no intervención, 1942 ( The policy of non-intervention )
- Las ideas de económicas Wagemann, ( The economic ideas of Ernst Wagemann )
- Un golpe de Estado internacional, 1944 ( An attack on the International State )
- Mosaico internacional, (International Mosaic )
- Jovellanos político, ( The politician Jovellanos )
- El pensamiento vivo de Jovellanos, 1951 ( The living thoughts of Jovellanos )