Alejandro Rebollo Álvarez-Amandi
Alejandro Rebollo Álvarez-Amandi | |
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Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 15 July 1986 – 29 June 1993 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Madrid, Spain | 5 November 1934
Died | 11 March 2015 Madrid, Spain | (aged 80)
Political party | Union of the Democratic Centre, Democratic and Social Centre |
Alma mater | University of Oviedo |
Alejandro Rebollo Álvarez-Amandi (5 November 1934 – 11 March 2015) was a Spanish politician, civil servant and lawyer. He was Secretary General and later president of Spanish train operator
Career
Rebollo was born in Madrid in 1934 but had close links to Oviedo where his mother was born and his father worked for the municipality.[1] He studied law at the University of Oviedo and graduated in 1956.[2] He became part of the Cuerpo de Intervención General of the Spanish Army against his will and later in the Técnicos Fiscales del Estado . In 1963 Rebollo as an Army captain was the lawyer of Julián Grimau when the latter was accused of leading the Communist Party of Spain and military rebellion during Francoist Spain.[2] During the defense Rebollo showed several inconsistencies in the prosecutor's story but Grimau was convicted and executed. Several decades after the trial Rebollo pleaded for the rehabilitation of the integrity of Grimau. He furthermore stated that he took up the defense as part of his duties as a military man, Christian and lawyer. Czechoslovakia honored Rebollo by naming a street in Prague after him.[2] In 1970 he was the Spanish representative in the International Congress for Civil Law.[1]
Rebollo took up several positions as civil servant administrator. In 1973 Rebollo became Secretary General of Spanish train operator
In 1983 he worked as a lawyer for the holding company Rumasa when it was nationalized by the Spanish government on 23 February.[3]
Rebollo was an active member of the political party
Adolfo Barthe Aza, a former member of the UCD, stated that Rebollo was not content with the status of Spanish politics in later years, and that he planned a re-entry into politics in Asturias in 2007 but later changed his mind.[2]
Personal life
Rebollo was considered to be the right-hand man of Spanish Prime Minister
Rebollo received the
Rebollo suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died on 11 March 2015 in Madrid, aged 80.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j A. Collado (12 March 2015). "Fallece a los 80 años el político asturiano Alejandro Rebollo" (in Spanish). El Comercio. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Fallece Alejandro Rebollo, líder regional del CDS y padre de la variante de Pajares" (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ "Alejandro Rebollo, abogado defensor de Julián Grimau" (in Spanish). La Provincia. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.