Germinal Esgleas

Francisco Calle [ca] (1962–1964)
Cipriano Damiano (1964–1965)
Francisco Royano [ca] (1965–1968)

Preceded byRoque Santamaría [ca]Succeeded byFerran Alemany [ca]

(in exile) [Orthodox faction]

In office
July 1952 – August 1958

Serving with

Miguel Vallejo [ca] (1952–1955)
Ramón Liarte [es] (1955–1957)
Ginés Alonso [ca] (1957–1958)

(possibilists)

Cipriano Damiano (1951–1953)

(interior)

Preceded byMartín VillarupiaSucceeded byRoque Santamaría [ca]In office
May 1945 – October 1947

Serving with

Ramón Álvarez (1945–1947)

(possibilists)

José Expósito [es] (1945)
Lorenzo Íñigo (1945–1946)
Enric Marco [ca] (1946–1947)
Antonio Ejarque (1947)

(interior)

Preceded byJuanel MolinaSucceeded byJosep Peirats

(in exile) [pre-split]

In office
June 1939 – June 1943

Serving with

Esteve Pallarols (1939)
Manuel López [ca] (1940)
Celedonio Pérez [ca] (1940–1941)
Eusebio Azañedo [ca] (1942–1943)

Preceded byMariano VázquezSucceeded byJosé Germán [ca] Personal detailsBorn

Josep Esgleas i Jaume

(1903-10-05)5 October 1903
Malgrat de Mar, SpainDied21 October 1981(1981-10-21) (aged 78)
Toulouse, FranceCitizenship

SpanishPolitical partyCNT

Germinal Esgleas Jaume was the pseudonym of Josep Esgleas i Jaume (Malgrat de Mar, 1903^[1] - Tolosa, 1981) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and militant of the FAI.

Exile

Exiled in France after the Spanish Civil War, he collaborated in the formation of the Spanish Libertarian Movement (MLE). In May 1945, he became General Secretary of the CNT during his exile in Paris after facing off with the previous General Secretary, Juan Manuel Molina Mateo. In those years a split took place between the orthodox faction and the possibilist faction, the latter of which was in favor of collaboration with the Spanish Republican government in exile. Esgleas was general secretary of the Orthodox faction until 1947, and again he was general secretary between 1952 and 1957. From 1958 to 1963 he was secretary general of the AIT. Later, when the two factions of the CNT reunited, he was general secretary between 1963 and 1967 and between 1969 and 1973. His appointment was answered by Cipriano Mera in 1964, who accused him, among other things, of appropriation of the running of the organization.^[2] His opinion was dominant within the CNT during the 1960s, which is why many of his detractors have accused him of immobility.^[3]

Works

Decíamos ayer. Verdades de todas horas
Sindicalismo: orientación doctrinal y táctica de los sindicatos obreros y la CNT (1935)

References

^ Soriano Jiménez, Ignacio Clemente (2002). Hermoso Plaja Saló y Carmen Parece Sans, el anarquismo silencioso, 1889-1982 (PDF). Salamanca: University of Salamanca. p. 216.
^ Memoria histórica: Cipriano Mera y la defensa de su honradez Archived 2022-02-09 at the Wayback Machine on exposa les acusacions de Mera a Esgleas
^ Germinal Esgleas. Enciclopedia del Anarquismo Español (in Spanish). Vol. 2. pp. 65–66.

External links

Germinal Esgleas i Jaume L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Murió el líder anarquista "Germinal" Esgleas a El País, 22 d'octubre de 1981
La CNT durante el franquismo per Ángel Herrín López