Ramón Lamoneda

Spanish politician (1892–1971)

Ramón Lamoneda

General secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
In office September 1938 – 1942

Personal details
Born	9 June 1892 Begíjar, Jaén
Died	27 February 1971(1971-02-27) (aged 78) Mexico City
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Ramón Lamoneda (1892–1971) 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

^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b Jean‐Louis Guereña (2006). "European Influences in Spanish Popular Education: The Case of the Socialist Casa Del Pueblo of Madrid and the Belgian Model (1897–1929)". History of Education. 35 (1): 39–40. doi:10.1080/00467600500419851. S2CID 143044719.
^ Roberto Villa García (2009). "The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada". Journal of Contemporary History. 44 (3): 411. doi:10.1177/0022009409104116. S2CID 220878908.
^ Paul Preston (January 1977). "The Origins of the Socialist Schism in Spain, 1917-31". Journal of Contemporary History. 12 (1): 104. doi:10.1177/002200947701200105. S2CID 162423505.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Abdón Mateos López (2012). "Ramón Lamoneda, un marxista revolucionario en la Secretaría General del PSOE, 1936-1942". Historia del presente (19): 143–154. ISSN 1579-8135.
^ Helen Graham (1991). Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-521-39257-0.

External links

Media related to Ramón Lamoneda at Wikimedia Commons

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Leadership

Secretaries-General	Ramón Lamoneda (1936–1944) Rodolfo Llopis (1944–1972) Felipe González (1974–1997) Joaquín Almunia (1997–2000) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2000–2012) Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (2012–2014) Pedro Sánchez (2014–2016; 2017–present)
Deputy Secretaries-General	Alfonso Guerra (1979–1997) José Blanco López (2008–2012) Elena Valenciano (2012–2014) Adriana Lastra (2017–present)
Presidents	Pablo Iglesias (1879–1925) Julián Besteiro (1925–1931) Francisco Largo Caballero (1931–1935) Indalecio Prieto (1935–1948) Trifón Gómez (1948–1955) Pascual Tomás (1964–1967) Ramón Rubial (1967–1970; 1976–1999) Manuel Chaves (2000–2012) José Antonio Griñán (2012–2014) Micaela Navarro (2014–2016) Javier Fernández (2017) Cristina Narbona (2017–present)

Organization

Regional wings	Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Basque Country Canary Islands Cantabria Castile and León Castilla–La Mancha Catalonia Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid Murcia Navarre Valencian Community
Affiliated organisations	Socialist Youth of Spain IDEAS Foundation for progress El Socialista Socialist Left
Former affiliated organisations	Catalan Federation of the PSOE Socialists of Catalonia People's Socialist Party Democratic Action Party Democratic Party of the New Left