Antonio García Birlán

Antonio García Birlán (Fuente Vaqueros, (Granada), 1891 - Barcelona, 1984) was an Andalusian anarchist based in Catalonia.

Antonio García Birlán
Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Catalunya
In office
September 26 – December 17, 1936
PresidentLluis Companys
Preceded byMartí Rouret i Callol
Succeeded byPedro Herrera Camarero
Personal details
Born(1891-05-26)May 26, 1891a
Fuente Vaqueros, Granada,
 Andalusia
DiedJune 20, 1984(1984-06-20) (aged 93)
Barcelona,
 Catalunya
Citizenship Spain
NationalityAndalusian
Political partyCNT-FAI
a. Though some biographers point to the date being March 27, 1892.

Biography

Antonio García Birlán began work as a journalist and used the pseudonym Dionysus.[1] He was a member of the National Committee of CNT in 1927-1929 and also of the FAI.[2] He was part of the Solidarity group (led by Ángel Pestaña), formed as a trend within the CNT. He directed and collaborated on Mañana (1930), Tierra y Libertad, Acción (1930-1931) and was editor of Solidaridad Obrera.[1]

He was Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance of the Generalitat de Catalunya from September 26 to December 17, 1936,[2] and a member of the Consell d'Economia de Catalunya as a representative of the FAI (1936-1938).[1] During the Spanish Civil War he directed La Vanguardia. After the conflict he went into exile in Argentina. He returned to Barcelona in 1983, but died a year later.[1][2]

Works
  • El anarquismo sus doctrinas, sus objetivos (in Spanish). Barcelona. 1934.

References
  1. "Antonio García Birlán" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  2. "Antonio García Birlán, un libertario entre nosotros" (in Spanish). Kaos en la Red. September 16, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
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