Andreu Capdevila i Puig
Andreu Capdevila i Puig | |
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Minister of Economy of Catalunya | |
In office April 16 – May 5, 1937 | |
President | Lluis Companys |
Preceded by | Josep Juan i Domènech |
Succeeded by | Valeri Mas i Casas |
Personal details | |
Born | Cardedeu, Vallès Oriental, Catalunya | December 25, 1894
Died | 1987 Rennes, Brittany | (aged 92–93)
Citizenship | Spain |
Nationality | Catalan |
Political party | CNT |
Occupation | Dyer |
Andreu Capdevila i Puig (Cardedeu, Vallès Oriental, December 25, 1894 - Rennes, Brittany 1987) was a Catalan trade unionist.[1][2]
Biography
Andreu Capdevila i Puig was born in Cardedeu on December 25, 1894.[3] As a child he moved to Sant Andreu de Palomar. At the age of 13 he began work as a dyer in the Fabra i Coats Spinning Company, while also participating in trade union actions. At the age of 20 he began to take on responsibilities at the CNT, he became leader of the CNT's Textile Union, and acted especially in Sant Andreu de Palomar.[1][2][3]
After the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution of 1936, he assumed the position of Minister of Economy of the Generalitat de Catalunya, from April 16 to May 5 1937, and then acted as President of the Economic Council.[1][2] At the end of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Perpignan, where he continued to agitate with the CNT, and regularly collaborated in the trade union newspapers Le Combat in Paris and L'Espoir in Toulouse.[1][2] Supporter of the orthodox line and opposed to the Workers' Alliance and Defensa Interior, during the 60s he acted as secretary of the Aude-Pyrenees Relations Commission of the CNT in exile. He spent his last years in Rennes.[3]
Works
- Un episodio de nuestra evacuación a Francia (1978).
References
- ^ a b c d Andreu Capdevila i Puig. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana. December 1, 1986.
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ignored (help) - ^ a b c d "Notes biogràfiques: Andreu Capdevila i Puig". a veuobrera.org. Diccionari de Sindicats, Sindicalistes i de la Història del Moviment Obrer de Catalunya (dels orígens fins l'any 1939). July 28, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^ a b c Vinyes i Roig, Pau (2009). "14". Andreu Capdevila i Puig, l'altre conseller andreuenc. Finestrelles. pp. 169–172. Retrieved August 7, 2016.