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Lluís Companys
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Lluís Companys

1882 – 1940 · aged 58

123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)

Born
21 Jun 1882 · El Tarròs
Died
15 Oct 1940 · Montjuïc Castle

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 67 years
  1. 21 Jun 1882BornBorn in El Tarròs
  2. 1918 – 1921RoleCity councilor of Barcelona
  3. 1921 – 1923RoleMember of the Congress of Deputies
  4. 1930 – 1931RoleCity councilor of Barcelona
  5. 1931 – 1933RoleMember of the Cortes republicanas
  6. 1931RoleCivil governor of Barcelona
  7. 1932 – 1939RoleMember of the Parliament of Catalonia
  8. 1932 – 1933RolePresident of the Parliament of Catalonia
  9. 1933RoleMinister of the Spanish Navy
  10. 1933 – 1934RoleMember of the Cortes republicanas
  11. 1933 – 1934RoleChairman of Republican Left of Catalonia
  12. 1933 – 1934RolePresident of the Generalitat of Catalonia
  13. 1936 – 1939RoleMember of the Cortes republicanas
  14. 1936 – 1940RolePresident of the Generalitat of Catalonia
  15. 1936 – 1940RoleChairman of Republican Left of Catalonia
  16. 15 Oct 1940DiedDied in Montjuïc Castle

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1882 – 1940).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp

Biography

Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: [ʎuˈis kumˈpaɲs]; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician from Spain who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.

Companys was a lawyer close to the labour movement and one of the most prominent leaders of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) political party, founded in 1931. He had a key role in the events of the proclamation and first steps of the Second Spanish Republic. Appointed president of the Generalitat of Catalonia in 1934 after the death of the previous president, Francesc Macià, his government tried to consolidate the recently acquired Catalan self-government and implement a progressive agenda, despite the internal difficulties. Opposed to the inclusion of the right-wing CEDA party in the coalition Spanish government during the strikes and insurgency in October 1934, on 6 October he proclaimed a new Catalan State. He and Catalan government officials were subsequently arrested and imprisoned.

After the left-wing Popular Front won the Spanish national election in 1936, Companys was pardoned, and he returned to head the fractious Catalan government. He remained president during the Spanish Civil War, loyal to the Republican faction. A refugee in France after the Republican defeat in 1939, he was arrested in 1940 by the secret police of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo. Extradited back to Francoist Spain, he was executed on 15 October 1940.

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