Ernest Lluch

{{Short description|Spanish politician and economist (1937–2000)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ernest Lluch

| image = Ernest Lluch 1986 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Ernest Lluch in 1986

| office = Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs

| monarch = Juan Carlos I

| primeminister = Felipe González

| termstart = 3 December 1982

| termend = 25 July 1986

| predecessor = Manuel Núñez Pérez

| successor = Julián García Vargas

| office2 = Member of the Congress of Deputies

| term_start2 = 15 June 1977

| term_end2 = 31 January 1989

| succeeded2 = Josep Corominas i Busqueta

| constituency2 = Barcelona (1982–1989)
Girona (1977–1982)

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|01|21|df=y}}

| birth_name = Ernest Lluch Martín

| birth_place = Vilassar de Mar, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|11|21|1937|01|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

| death_cause = Ballistic trauma

| body_discovered =

| education =

| occupation = Economist
Politician

| spouse =

| partner =

| known_for = Victim of assassination

}}

Ernest Lluch Martín (21 January 1937 – 21 November 2000){{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-22-mn-55681-story.html|title=Former Official Shot to Death in Spain|date=2000-11-22|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-12}} was a Spanish economist and politician, member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC).{{Cite web|url=http://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/backlash-sees-spanish-minister-rectify-comments-comparing-violence-in-catalonia-with-basque-country,%20https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/backlash-sees-spanish-minister-rectify-comments-comparing-violence-in-catalonia-with-basque-country|title=Backlash sees Spanish minister rectify comments comparing violence in Catalonia with Basque Country|last=White|first=Cristina Tomàs|website=www.catalannews.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-11-12}} He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982 to 1986 in the first Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government of Felipe González. He was assassinated in 2000{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1375329/Eta-hitmen-assassinate-ex-minister-in-garage.html|title=Eta hitmen assassinate ex-minister in garage|last=Wilkinson|first=Isambard|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=2000-11-22|access-date=2019-11-12|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}} by the Basque separatist organisation, ETA.

Background

Lluch was born in Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona province. He earned a PhD in Economic Sciences at the University of Barcelona (UB), and studied further at the Sorbonne in Paris. While he was a lecturer at the UB, he was arrested on several occasions and expelled from the university because of his anti-francoist political activity. From this position, he published seminal works on Spanish political economy.Ernest Lluch and Luís Argemí (1985). Agronomía y fisiocracía en España (1750–1820). Valencia. He held the Chair of Economics at the University of Valencia (1974) and the Chair of History of Economic Doctrines at the UB. His last official position was as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, from 1989 to 1995.

Career

In April 1980 he was chosen as spokesman{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0p-AgAAQBAJ&q=ernest+lluch+chosen+as+spokesperson&pg=PA80|title=Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, Transition and Democracy|last=Guibernau|first=Montserrat|date=2004-07-31|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134353262|language=en}} of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) to the Congress of Deputies, and, two years later, in the 1982 general election, he was elected member of the Lower House in representation of Barcelona. Felipe González appointed him as Minister of Health and Consumption in his first government. He held the post until 1986.

In May 1986 he retired from politics to resume the chair of History of Economic Doctrines of the University of Barcelona. On 2 January 1989 he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.

Death

On November 21, 2000, Lluch was assassinated by ETA, who shot him twice in the head at his home in Barcelona.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/11/21/spain.shooting.reut/|title=CNN.com - Spanish politician shot dead - November 22, 2000|website=www.cnn.com|access-date=2019-11-12}} The crime was claimed by the ETA's so-called Comando Barcelona, formed by Fernando García Jodrá, alias 'Txomin', Liarni Artmendaritz and José Antonio Krutxaga.{{Cite web|last=324cat|date=2001-08-24|title=Historial del Comando Barcelona|url=https://www.ccma.cat/324/historial-del-comando-barcelona/noticia/3020/|access-date=2020-09-05|website=CCMA|language=ca}} In 2002, the three members of the Commando were arrested and sentenced by the Spanish National High Court to 33 years in prison for the murder.{{Cite news|last=Yoldi|first=José|date=2002-07-18|title=La Audiencia condena a 33 años a los asesinos de Ernest Lluch|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2002/07/19/espana/1027029619_850215.html|access-date=2020-09-05|issn=1134-6582}}

Bibliography

El pensament econòmic a Catalunya (1760-1849). Edicions 62, 1973. {{ISBN|9788429766059}}
La via valenciana. Editorial Tres i Quatre, 1976 (Premi Joan Fuster d'assaig, 1975) {{ISBN|9788485211159}}
La Catalunya vençuda del segle XVIII. Foscors i clarors de la Il·lustració. Edicions 62, 1996. {{ISBN|9788429742213}}
Las Españas vencidas del siglo XVIII. Editorial Crítica, 1999. {{ISBN|9788474239249}}
L'alternativa catalana (1700-1714-1740). Ramon de Vilana i Perlas i Juan Amor de Soria: teoria i acció austriacistes. Eumo Editorial, 2000. {{ISBN|9788476027127}}
La passió per la música. Recerques d'un melòman il.lustrat. CCG Edicions, 2004. {{ISBN|9788495483867}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080517055055/http://www.bib.ub.edu/recursos-informacio/colleccions/colleccions-especials/ernest-lluch/ Special Collection: Ernest Lluch] (University of Barcelona Library)

Category:1937 births

Category:2000 deaths

Category:20th-century Spanish economists

Category:Assassinated Spanish politicians

Category:Economists from Catalonia

Category:Politicians from Catalonia

Category:Deaths by firearm in Spain

Category:Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Members of the 2nd Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Members of the 4th Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Members of the constituent Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Academic staff of the University of Barcelona