Ramón Lamoneda | |
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| General secretary of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party | |
| In office September 1938 – 1942 | |
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| Born | 9 June 1892 |
| Died | 27 February 1971(1971-02-27) (aged 78) |
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Ramón Lamoneda Fernández (9 June 1892 – 27 February 1971) was a Spanishtypographer and socialist politician who was the first general secretary of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Lamoneda was born inBegíjar,Jaén, on 9 June 1892.[1] His family moved to Madrid in 1904.[2]
He began his career as a typographer in Madrid and became a member of the Graphic Federation of the General Union of Workers and theSocialist Youth group.[1] Lamoneda went to Belgium in 1913 to attend the courses at the International Socialist School where he studied the work by Centrale d’Éducation Ouvrière.[3] In August 1914 he joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party,[1] and Manuel Núñez de Arenas and he were responsible for running of the party's education institution, Central de Educación Socialista, which was founded in 1913 to train future administrators.[3] Lamoneda left the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and joined theCommunist Party in the 1920s.[4] However, later he rejoined the Socialist Party.[1] He and Mariano Garcia Cortes edited a socialist magazine entitledNuestra Palabra.[5]
Lamoneda was a deputy for theCortes Generales for Granada following the elections in 1933 and 1936.[1] In September 1938 he became the first general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[6][7] He was in office until 1942.[6]
In 1946 he went into exile in Mexico where he worked as a type director at various publishing houses.[6] He died in Mexico City on 27 February 1971.[6]
From 1946 to 2009 Lamoneda was not mentioned in the history of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[2] Lamoneda's membership status was rehabilitated on 12 December 2009 in a ceremony held in Madrid, and his membership card was given to his children.[2]
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