Lluís Companys i Jover
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 Small monument in Barcelona dedicated to Companys |
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| In office January 1, 1934 – October 15, 1940 |
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| Preceded by | Francesc Macià i Llussà |
| Succeeded by | Josep Irla i Bosch |
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1st President of the Parliament Catalonia
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| In office December 19, 1932 – Sometime in 1933 |
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| Succeeded by | Joan Casanovas i Maristany |
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| Born | 21 June 1882 El Tarròs, Urgell, Spain |
| Died | 15 October 1940 (aged 58) |
| Political party | ERC |
| Alma mater | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Profession | lawyer |
Lluís Companys i Jover (born: el Tarròs, in Tornabous, June 21 1882 - died: Barcelona, October 15 1940) was a Spanish politician and lawyer, a Catalan nationalist, leader of the political party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Exiled after the war, he was captured and delivered to the regime of Francisco Franco by the Gestapo, which executed him in 1940.
Youth
Companys was the son of private farmers Josep Companys and Maria Lluïsa de Jover. After getting his license to practice law from the Universitat de Barcelona, Companys had participated in the political life of Catalonia from a young age. In 1906, as a result the military burning the writings of Catalan newspapers Cu-Cut! and La Veu de Catalunya, and after the passage of the Ley de Jurisdicciones ("Law of Jurisdictions", which made speech against Spain and its symbols a criminal offense), he participated in the creation of Solidaridad Catalana. Later, he affiliated himself with the ephemeral Unió Federal Nacionalista Republicana, of which he was president of its youth section. He was investigated for his intense youth activities and was jailed fifteen times, being classified after the Tragic Weekend of Barcelona as a "dangerous individual" in police records.
With Francesc Layret, Companys represented the leftist labor faction of the Partit Republicà Català (Catalan Republican Party), in which he was elected councilman of Barcelona in
1916. In November of 1920, he was detained together with
Salvador Seguí (known as El Noi del Sucre), Martí
Barrera, Josep Viadiu, and other
Despite his deportation, in the 1920 legislative elections, Companys was elected deputy of Sabadell, taking the place of Layret, who was supposed to take that seat prior to his assassination. This gave him parliamentary immunity, which secured his release from prison.
He was one of the founders of Unió de Rabassaires in 1922, for which he worked as a lawyer and director of the magazine La Terra during the years of the regime of Primo de Rivera.
Detained again, he was unable to assist the Conferencia de Izquierdas ("Conference of Leftists") celebrate between March 12 and March 19, 1931, from which was born the political party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya; however, he was elected as an executive member of that party, representing the Partit Republicà Català. Thanks to the bonds between the Spanish labor movement and the Spanish syndicalist movement, the election of Companys to this position gave the ERC great prestige in leftist public opinion; before, it had been considered a party of the small progressive bourgeoisie.
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| Preceded by Francesc Macià i Llussà |
President of Catalonia 1934–1940 |
Succeeded by Josep Irla i Bosch |
| Preceded by Carles Pi i Sunyer |
President of
ERC 1936–1940 |
Succeeded by Heribert Barrera |
| Preceded by Francesc Macià i Llussà |
President of
ERC 1933–1935 |
Succeeded by Carles Pi i Sunyer |
| Preceded by (none) |
President of Catalan Parliament 1932–1933 |
Succeeded by Joan Casanovas i Maristany |
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| Francesc Macià i Llussà · Lluís Companys i Jover · Carles Pi i Sunyer · Lluís Companys i Jover · Heribert Barrera · Jaume Campabadal · Jordi Carbonell i de Ballester · Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira |
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| Lluís Companys i Jover · Joan Casanovas i Maristany · Josep Irla i Bosch · Antoni Rovira i Virgili · Manuel Serra i Moret · Francesc Farreres i Duran · Heribert Barrera i Costa · Miquel Coll i Alentorn · Joaquim Xicoy i Bassegoda · Joan Reventós i Carner · Joan Rigol i Roig · Ernest Benach i Pascual | |
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