Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atiyenza ( Spanish: Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atienza ; March 31, 1888 , Cartagena - July 6, 1957 , Madrid ) - Spanish military commander and politician during the Spanish Civil War and the early years of the Francisco Franco regime . The military attache at the embassies of Spain in France and Germany, headed the delegation for colonial affairs, held the post of High Commissioner of Spain in Morocco. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain in the years 1939-1940.
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Biography
Juan Louis Beigbeder was born into a family of immigrants from Alsace . He was educated at the Academy of Engineering in Guadalajara. In 1909-1910, he fought in North Africa. He was considered an intellectual among the military, was fluent in French and Arabic. For 16 years he served in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco. In 1926-1934 he held the position of military attache in the embassies of Spain in France and Germany. In Germany, he witnessed the rise of the National Socialists , met with General Erich Kulenthal . He returned to his homeland in 1934, held various posts in the colonial administration of Morocco.
Beigbeder maintained contact with military conspirators and actively participated in the 1936 putsch in Spanish Morocco and secured the support of the coupists from Moroccan leaders. With the consent of Franco Beigbeder, he contacted General Külenthal, who served as German military attaché in France, and secured the delivery of transport aircraft to Spain through private German companies. Beigbeder also convinced the Italian Consul in Tangier of the need for military assistance to the Spanish coup. In April 1937, Juan Beigbeder was appointed High Commissioner of Spain in Morocco and was engaged in the recruitment of the local population in the army of Franco. The bagger was in the phalanx .
In August 1939, at the suggestion of his son-in-law, Sounier Franco appointed Germanophile Beigbeder to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. With the outbreak of World War II, Beigbeder promised the German ambassador, Storer , that despite neutrality, Spain would support Germany with all available means. In October 1940, amid rumors about Beigbeder's intimate relationship with a British woman suspected of espionage, he was removed from office. He learned of his resignation from the newspapers.
Having fallen out of favor, Beigbeder revised his political views on the Third Reich and began to support the aspirant to the throne of Count Juan of Barcelona . In 1943, Beigbeder was appointed military attache at the Spanish Embassy in the United States. He died in 1957 in obscurity.
Literature
- S.P. Pozharskaya. Secret diplomacy of Madrid. M .: International Relations, 1971