Luis Rodríguez de Miguel | |
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_-_Fondo_Mar%25C3%25ADn-Kutxa_Fototeka_(cropped).jpg) De Miguel delivering speech during his service in theBlue Division | |
| Minister of Housing | |
| In office 3 January 1974 – 12 December 1975 | |
| Prime Minister | Carlos Arias Navarro |
| Preceded by | José Utrera Molina |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 July 1910 |
| Died | 19 April 1982(1982-04-19) (aged 71) Zamora |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Party | FET y de las JONS |
| Spouse | María Luisa Ramos |
| Children | 8 |
Luis Rodríguez de Miguel (1910–1982) was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was a specialist incriminal psychology. He was a member of theFalange Party during theFranco era and served as theminister of housing between 1974 and 1975.
Rodríguez was born on 3 July 1910 inZamora.[1] His father was civil governor of the province ofGirona and first-class commissioner of the surveillance corps.[1] Luis Rodríguez studied law in Barcelona and Madrid and obtained a diploma in criminal psychology from the University of Madrid in 1933.[1]
Following his graduation Rodríguez started his prosecutor career in 1935 Zamora andSalamanca.[1] When theCivil War broke out in 1936 he sided with the rebels and joined the Falange Party.[2] Following the war, he was appointed civil governor of theBalearic Islands in 1941 and later ofGuipúzcoa in 1942.[1] The same year he joined theBlue Division, a military body that General Franco allocated to Germany inWorld War II, inSan Sebastián.[2] In 1944 Rodríguez was appointed director general of the Post Office and served in the post until 1956.[2] He was named the president of the board of directors of theInternational Telecommunication Union, based in Geneva, in 1954 and was also court attorney for the Trade Union Organization in 1955.[2]
In 1957 he was appointed undersecretary of theMinistry of the Interior under the GeneralCamilo Alonso Vega.[1] Rodríguez held the post until 1969.[2] In 1974, he was appointed minister of housing to thecabinet led byPrime MinisterCarlos Arias Navarro, replacingJosé Utrera Molina in the post.[1] He was in office from 3 January 1974 to 12 December 1975.[2] In February 1980 he was appointed attorney general of theSupreme Court, which he held until his death in February 1982.[2]
Rodríguez married María Luisa Ramos, and they had eight children.[3] He died in his hometown, Zamaro, on 19 April 1982 and was buried there.[3]
A street in the town of Toro was named after him.[2]
Rodríguez was the recipient of the following: Grand Cross of theOrder of Civil Merit (1947); Grand Cross of theImperial Order of the Yoke and Arrows (1959); Grand Cross of theOrder of Saint Raymond of Peñafort (1961); Grand Cross of theOrder of Cisneros (1964); Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1964); Grand Cross of theOrder of Isabella the Catholic (1969); Grand Plaque of the Order of Postal Merit (1969) and Grand Cross of theOrder of Charles III (1975).[2]
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