Ángel Galarza
{{Short description|Spanish politician (1892–1966)}}
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| office = Minister of Interior
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| primeminister = Francisco Largo Caballero
| term_start = 4 September 1936
| term_end = May 1937
| birth_name = Ángel Galarza Gago
| birth_date = 4 November 1892
| birth_place = Madrid
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|7|25|1892|11|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris
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| party = {{ubl|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | Radical Socialist Republican Party}}
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| parents = Ángel Galarza Vidal (father)
| nationality = Spanish
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Ángel Galarza (1892–1966) was a Spanish lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the minister of interior from 1936 to 1937. He left Spain following the civil war for Mexico. In 1946 he settled in Paris, France.
Early life and education
Galarza was born in Madrid on 4 November 1892.{{cite web|title=Galarza Gago, Ángel|access-date=22 March 2022|language=es
|url=https://fpabloiglesias.es/entrada-db/6739_galarza-gago-angel/|publisher=Fundación Pablo Iglesias}} His father was an engineer and politician, Ángel Galarza Vidal (1856-1940).
Galarza received a degree in law from the University of Madrid in 1919. He also obtained a PhD in 1921.{{cite web|title=Ángel Galarza Gago|language=es|publisher=Real Academia de la Historia|url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/25251/angel-galarza-gago|access-date=22 March 2022}}
Career
In June 1919 Galarza became a member of the Madrid Socialist Association which was attached to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. In 1920 he began to work for the newspaper El Sol and later, for La Voz. Galarza joined a Madrid-based freemason organization. Next year he was arrested for his participation in the opposition movement in Murcia against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. In the prison he met with Marcelino Domingo, Álvaro de Albornoz and Benito Artigas, with whom he established the Radical Socialist Republican Party in 1929.{{cite web|title=Persona - Galarza Gago, Angel (1892-1966)|url=http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/44568|publisher=Pares|access-date=22 March 2022
|language=es}} Due to his participation in the pro-republican movement in December 1930 he was again arrested and released from the prison in April 1931. He was elected as a deputy representing the Zamora province in June 1931 for the Radical Socialist Republican Party. When a provisional government was established during the Second Republic he was appointed first prosecutor of the Supreme Court and then, director general of security. He also served as the attorney general during this period.{{cite journal|author=Carolyn P. Boyd|title='Responsibilities' and the Second Spanish Republic 1931-6|journal=European History Quarterly|volume=14|issue=2|year=1984|doi=10.1177/026569148401400202|page=157}} Later he was named as the undersecretary of the minister of communications which he held between December 1931 and January 1933. During this period he launched two newspapers in Zamora, La Mañana and La Tarde.
In February 1932, he was expelled from the Radical Socialist Republican Party. He joined the Spanish Socialist Workers Party in 1933.{{cite book|author=Paul Preston|title=The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2012|isbn=978-0-393-23966-9|page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PKHUTjX0UAC&pg=PT6|location=London; New York
|author-link=Paul Preston}} He was elected as a deputy representing Zamora in the elections for the party in February 1936. During the civil war Francisco Largo Caballero formed a cabinet on 4 September 1936, and Galarza was appointed minister of interior.{{cite book|author=Jill Edwards|title=The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan
|year=1979|isbn=978-1-349-04003-2|location=London; Basingstoke|page=219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25CwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA219}} Galarza's term ended in May 1937. He was appointed member of the Court of Civil Responsibilities in October 1937 which he held until February 1938.
Later years and death
Galarza exiled into Mexico at the end of the civil war and was dismissed from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in 1946. The same year he settled in France and died in Paris on 25 July 1966. In 2008 Galarza's membership to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party was rehabilitated in the party congress held in July 2008.
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