Ramón Lamoneda

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Ramón Lamoneda
General secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
In office
September 1938 – 1942
Personal details
Born9 June 1892
Begíjar, Jaén
Died27 February 1971(1971-02-27) (aged 78)
Mexico City
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Ramón Lamoneda Fernández (9 June 1892 – 27 February 1971) was a Spanish

typographer and socialist politician who was the first general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
.

Early life

Lamoneda was born in Begíjar, Jaén, on 9 June 1892.[1] His family moved to Madrid in 1904.[2]

Career

He began his career as a typographer in Madrid and became a member of the Graphic Federation of the General Union of Workers and the Socialist Youth group.[1] Lamoneda went to Belgium in 1913 to attend the courses at the International Socialist School where he studied the work by Centrale d’Éducation Ouvrière.[3] In August 1914 he joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party,[1] and Manuel Núñez de Arenas and he were responsible for running of the party's education institution, Central de Educación Socialista, which was founded in 1913 to train future administrators.[3] Lamoneda left the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and joined the Communist Party in the 1920s.[4] However, later he rejoined the Socialist Party.[1] He and Mariano Garcia Cortes edited a socialist magazine entitled Nuestra Palabra.[5]

Lamoneda was a deputy for the Cortes Generales for Granada following the elections in 1933 and 1936.[1] In September 1938 he became the first general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[6][7] He was in office until 1942.[6]

Later years and death

In 1946 he went into exile in Mexico where he worked as a type director at various publishing houses.[6] He died in Mexico City on 27 February 1971.[6]

From 1946 to 2009 Lamoneda was not mentioned in the history of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[2] Lamoneda's membership status was rehabilitated on 12 December 2009 in a ceremony held in Madrid, and his membership card was given to his children.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ramón Lamoneda Fernández". Real Academia de la Historia. 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "En Recuerdo de Ramón Lamoneda" (in Spanish). PSOE. 6 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
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  4. S2CID 220878908
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  5. S2CID 162423505
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    ISSN 1579-8135
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  7. ISBN 978-0-521-39257-0
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