Isidro Fabela

Isidro Fabela Alfaro ( born June 29, 1882 in Atlacomulco; † August 12, 1964 in Cuernavaca ) was a Mexican lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He worked from 1913 to 1915 as the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores in the government of Venustiano Carranza, and from 1942 to 1945 as governor of the State of México. From 1946 to 1952 he was a judge at the International Court of Justice.

Life

Isidro Fabela graduated in 1908 with a degree in law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he was Professor of International Law in 1921. From 1911 he served in various public offices at the local, regional and national level, including from 1913 to 1915 in the government of Venustiano Carranza as the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, a comparable position with a foreign minister. From 1913 onwards he held various diplomatic posts in the Mexican embassies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Germany (1920 ), Spain, Italy, France and the League of Nations in Geneva. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Governor of the State of México. After he was first elected senator in 1946, he did not come to this office, he was appointed judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the same year. At this he worked until 1952.

Isidro Fabela founded with the newspapers " La Verdad " (1910) and " El Puebla " (1914 ) two periodicals and published a number of books on the history of the Mexican Revolution. In his house in San Angel, which he left to the Mexican government, 1958, the " Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela " was established. It is considered a historical monument and contains, among other things, a library, an archive, and a large collection of art from the collection Fabelas. Isidro Fabela was founded in 1960 with the Medalla del Senado de la Belisario Domínguez República Award, which is awarded since 1954 and is the highest award from the Mexican government award, and also received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The Faculty of Law, University confers the Isidro Fabela - Medal ( Medalla Isidro Fabela ) to people who are committed to the preservation of regional culture and democracy.

Fabela and the annexation of Austria by Germany

From 1937 to 1940 Isidro Fabela was head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva. In this capacity, he presented on behalf of the Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay on March 19, 1938, formulated by him official protest against the occupation of Austria by the troops of the German Wehrmacht. Mexico was the only country in the world to officially protested against the " connection" designated annexation of Austria before the League of Nations.

To commemorate this act was after the war, the Mexican place in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district its name. According to the diplomat, who wrote the note of protest and presented, is the Isidro Fabela - Promenade in Vienna's Danube city, named in the immediate vicinity of the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations. Fabela is next Gilberto Bosques, the savior of numerous Austrian persecuted during the Nazi era, the second Mexican diplomat, which was bestowed this honor.

Works (selection)

  • Por un mundo libre. Mexico City 1943
  • Historia de la Revolución Mexicana diplomática. Two volumes. Mexico City 1958/1959
  • Intervención. Mexico City 1959
  • Mis memorias de la Revolución. Mexico City 1977
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