National Republican Guard (Spain)
{{Other uses|National Republican Guard (disambiguation){{!}}National Republican Guard}}
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|dates=1936–1937
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|anniversaries=29 August
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The National Republican Guard ({{langx|es|Guardia Nacional Republicana}}, GNR) was a public security corps which existed in the Second Spanish Republic at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War, successor of the Civil Guard within the Republican faction.{{in lang|es}} Guerra Civil Española 1936 «[http://www.guerracivil1936.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=139 Unidades: La Guardia Civil] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005546/http://www.guerracivil1936.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=139 |date=2013-12-03 }}» Consultado el 23 de enero de 2012
History
The GNR was created by decree of 29 August 1936, by which the Civil Guard still existing within the Republican faction was renamed the National Republican Guard.{{in lang|es}} [http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1936/244/B01564-01564.pdf Gaceta de Madrid: Diario Oficial de la República núm. 244 (31 de agosto de 1936)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020531/http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1936/244/B01564-01564.pdf |date=2016-03-05 }} Given the important extension of the rebellion among the Civil Guard, this reorganization was due to the interest of the republican government to ensure the fidelity and reliability of the members of the Civil Guard who had remained loyal to the government during the Spanish coup of July 1936. General {{ill|José Sanjurjo y Rodríguez de Arias|es}} was appointed Inspector General of the GNR until 19 October 1937, when it was integrated into the new Interior Security Corps.{{in lang|es}} [http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1937/293/B00253-00253.pdf Gaceta de la República: Diario Oficial núm. 293 (20 de octubre de 1937)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083137/http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1937/293/B00253-00253.pdf |date=2016-03-05 }}
On 27 December 1936, the new Internal Security Corps was created, in which the members of the GNR should be integrated.{{in lang|es}} Hugh Thomas (1976), Historia de la Guerra Civil Española, p. 597{{in lang|es}} [http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1936/364/B01145-01146.pdf Gaceta de la República: Diario Oficial núm. 64 (29 de diciembre de 1936)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305021101/http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1936/364/B01145-01146.pdf |date=2016-03-05 }} However, the integration process was slow due to the changing fortunes of the conflict and took some time. For example, during the May Days of 1937 in Barcelona the GNR was still operative, coming to intervene with the Guardia de Asalto in the street fighting against the militants of the CNT–FAI and the POUM.{{in lang|es}} Hugh Thomas (1976), Historia de la Guerra Civil Española, pp. 707–713 At the end of 1937 the reorganization of the last remnants of the GNR was completed, with which it disappeared definitively.
See also
References
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Category:Defunct law enforcement agencies of Spain
Category:Military history of Spain
Category:Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic
Category:1936 establishments in Spain
Category:1937 disestablishments in Spain
Category:Military units and formations established in 1936
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1937