| Birth: | Jun. 21, 1882 | | Death: | Oct. 15, 1940 | 
Lluís Companys i Jover (Tarrós 21-06-1882, Barcelona 15-10-1940). Catalan Politician and leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. He served as minister of Navy of the Sapnish Republic and President of the Catalan Parliament. In 1933 he became President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalan Government. He was the Catalan President during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). After the War he exiled to France in 1939. In September 1940 he was arrested and extradited to Spain by German Agents. He was put to death in compliance with a legal sentence at Montjuïc Castle (Barcelona). (bio by: Algernon Moncrieff)
Search Amazon for Lluís Companys | | | Burial:
Cementiri de Montjuïc
Barcelona
Cataluna, Spain |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Algernon Moncrieff
Record added: Mar 19, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 10637870 |
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