Ministry of the Air (Spain)
Fernando Barron , first Undersecretary |
The Ministry of the Air (
The ministry was created on 8 August 1939, after the end of the Spanish Civil War. It was dissolved on 4 July 1977 by the Royal Decree 1558/77, being merged with the Ministry of Defence as part of the transition to democracy.
History
During the Second Spanish Republic there had been the Dirección General de Aeronáutica , an agency that had both military and civil aviation under its jurisdiction, but it disappeared after the start of the Spanish Civil War.
The direct predecessor of the Ministry of the Air was the Ministry of National Defense, created in 1938 during the
After the end of the Civil War, Yagüe intended to build a new
The Ministry was abolished by the Royal Decree 1558/77 of 4 July 1977, when Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez created the Ministry of Defence as part of his second government (formed following the 1977 general election[8]), which integrated the ministries of the Army, Navy and Air Force during the transition to democracy.
Organic structure
On 5 September 1939 the structure of the Ministry was organized, being composed of the following departments:[9]
- General Staff of the Air Force .
- Undersecretary, overseeing general directorates of: Civil Aviation, Personnel, Infrastructure, Material and Antiaeronautics (anti-aircraft).
- Senior Advisory Council.
- Private Secretary of the Minister.
- General and Technical Secretariat.
- Political Secretariat.
- Administrative Technical Board.
- Legal advice.
List of ministers
No. | Portrait | Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Cabinet | Ref. |
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1 | Juan Yagüe (1891–1952) | Lieutenant General9 August 1939 | 27 June 1940 | 323 days | Military | Franco II | [10] | |
2 | Juan Vigón (1880–1955) | Lieutenant General27 June 1940 | 20 July 1945 | 5 years, 23 days | Military | Franco II | [11] | |
3 | Eduardo González-Gallarza (1898–1986) | Lieutenant General20 July 1945 | 25 February 1957 | 11 years, 220 days | Military | Franco III–IV | [12] | |
4 | José Rodríguez y Díaz de Lecea (1894–1967) | Lieutenant General25 February 1957 | 11 July 1962 | 5 years, 136 days | Military | Franco V | [13] | |
5 | José Lacalle Larraga (1897–1981) | Lieutenant General11 July 1962 | 30 October 1969 | 7 years, 111 days | Military | Franco VI–VII | [14] | |
6 | Julio Salvador y Díaz-Benjumea (1910–1987) | Lieutenant General30 October 1969 | 31 December 1973 | 4 years, 62 days | Military | Franco VIII Carrero Blanco | [15][16] | |
7 | Mariano Cuadra Medina (1912–1981) | Lieutenant General4 January 1974 | 12 December 1975 | 1 year, 342 days | Military | Arias Navarro I | [17] | |
8 | Carlos Franco Iribarnegaray (1912–1982) | Lieutenant General12 December 1975 | 5 July 1977 | 1 year, 205 days | Military | Arias Navarro II Suárez I | [18][19] |
See also
- Chief of Staff of the Air Force (Spain)
References
- ^ Hugh Thomas (1976); La Guerra Civil Española, pág. 811
- ^ a b Mariano Aguilar Olivencia (1999); pág. 38
- ^ "Ejército del Aire – Historia 1939". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ a b Paul Preston (2008); pág. 129
- ^ Mariano Aguilar Olivencia (1999); pág. 72
- ^ Mariano Aguilar Olivencia (1999); pág. 73
- ^ Paul Preston (2008); pág. 132
- ^ "Suárez, confirmado por el Rey, formará nuevo Gobierno". El País (in Spanish). 18 June 1977. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ BOE núm. 248, pp. 4938-4941 (5 de septiembre de 1939)
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Bibliography
- Aguilar, Mariano (1999). El ejército español durante el franquismo (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Akal. ISBN 84-460-0962-5.
- Tamames Gómez, Ramón (1974). Historia de España Alfaguara VII. La República. La Era de Franco (in Spanish). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
- ISBN 97-884-2532-4987.