Antonio García Birlán

Antonio García Birlán
Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Catalunya
In office
September 26 – December 17, 1936
PresidentLluis Companys
Preceded byMartí Rouret i Callol
Succeeded byPedro Herrera Camarero
Personal details
Born(1891-05-26)May 26, 1891a
Fuente Vaqueros, Granada,
Andalusia
DiedJune 20, 1984(1984-06-20) (aged 93)
Barcelona,
Catalunya
CitizenshipSpain
NationalityAndalusian
Political partyCNT-FAI
a. Though some biographers point to the date being March 27, 1892.

Antonio García Birlán (Fuente Vaqueros, (Granada), 1891 – Barcelona, 1984) was an Andalusian anarchist based in Catalonia.[1][2]

Biography

Antonio García Birlán began work as a journalist and used the pseudonym Dionysus.[1] He was a member of the National Committee of CNT in 1927–1929 and also of the FAI.[2] He was part of the Solidarity group (led by Ángel Pestaña), formed as a trend within the CNT. He directed and collaborated on Mañana (1930), Tierra y Libertad, Acción (1930–1931) and was editor of Solidaridad Obrera.[1]

He was Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance of the Generalitat de Catalunya from September 26 to December 17, 1936,[2] and a member of the Consell d'Economia de Catalunya as a representative of the FAI (1936–1938).[1] During the Spanish Civil War he directed La Vanguardia. After the conflict he went into exile in Argentina. He returned to Barcelona in 1983, but died a year later.[1][2]

Works

  • El anarquismo sus doctrinas, sus objetivos (in Spanish). Barcelona. 1934.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Antonio García Birlán" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Antonio García Birlán, un libertario entre nosotros" (in Spanish). Kaos en la Red. September 16, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2020.