Andreu Capdevila i Puig

Andreu Capdevila i Puig (Cardedeu, Vallès Oriental, December 25, 1894 - Rennes, Brittany 1987) was a Catalan trade unionist.[1][2]

Andreu Capdevila i Puig
Minister of Economy of Catalunya
In office
April 16 – May 5, 1937
PresidentLluis Companys
Preceded byJosep Juan i Domènech
Succeeded byValeri Mas i Casas
Personal details
Born(1894-12-25)December 25, 1894
Cardedeu, Vallès Oriental,  Catalunya
Died1987(1987-00-00) (aged 92–93)
Rennes,  Brittany
Citizenship Spain
NationalityCatalan
Political partyCNT
OccupationDyer

Biography

Andreu Capdevila i Puig was born in Cardedeu on December 25, 1894.[3] As a child he moved to Sant Andreu de Palomar. At the age of 13 he began work as a dyer in the Fabra i Coats Spinning Company, while also participating in trade union actions. At the age of 20 he began to take on responsibilities at the CNT, he became leader of the CNT's Textile Union, and acted especially in Sant Andreu de Palomar.[1][2][3]

After the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution of 1936, he assumed the position of Minister of Economy of the Generalitat de Catalunya, from April 16 to May 5 1937, and then acted as President of the Economic Council.[1][2] At the end of the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Perpignan, where he continued to agitate with the CNT, and regularly collaborated in the trade union newspapers Le Combat in Paris and L'Espoir in Toulouse.[1][2] Supporter of the orthodox line and opposed to the Workers' Alliance and Defensa Interior, during the 60s he acted as secretary of the Aude-Pyrenees Relations Commission of the CNT in exile. He spent his last years in Rennes.[3]

Works
  • Un episodio de nuestra evacuación a Francia (1978).

References
  1. "Andreu Capdevila i Puig". L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana. December 1, 1986.
  2. "Notes biogràfiques: Andreu Capdevila i Puig". a veuobrera.org. Diccionari de Sindicats, Sindicalistes i de la Història del Moviment Obrer de Catalunya (dels orígens fins l'any 1939). July 28, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  3. Vinyes i Roig, Pau (2009). "14". Andreu Capdevila i Puig, l'altre conseller andreuenc. Finestrelles. pp. 169–172. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
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