Eduardo Val

Eduardo Val Bescós
Eduardo Val Bescós
Councillor of Communications & Public Works
	In office; March 5, 1939 – April 1, 1939
President	José Miaja
Vice President	Julián Besteiro
Personal details
Born	1906; A Coruña, Galicia
Died	May 1, 1992 (aged 85–86); Béccar, Argentina
Citizenship	Spain
Nationality	Galician
Political party	CNT-FAI

Eduardo Val Bescós (A Coruña, 1906 - Argentina, 1992)[1] was a Galician anarcho-syndicalist.

Biography

Eduardo Val participated in the Jaca uprising of 1930. He was the president of the Hospitality Union of the CNT, and later became secretary of the CNT's Regional Defense Committee during the Spanish Civil War. Under his command was Cipriano Mera, with whom he managed to stop the coup attempt in Cuenca. He endeavored to transform the Confederate Militias into disciplined military divisions.

On March 5, 1939, the National Defence Council was constituted, to separate Juan Negrín and the Communists from power and to negotiate an end to the war. General Miaja trusted Val, being one of his advisers during the defense of Madrid and one of the best informed of what was happening on the Central and Southern fronts. Thus Eduardo Val joined the council as head of Communications and Public Works, representing the CNT.[2] After the defeat he first went into exile in England and later moved to France, where he was captured by the Nazis and began a tortuous journey through various concentration camps. He eventually escaped and joined the 9th Leclerc Company, the first to enter Paris.

He never returned to Spain, he instead went to Argentina, where he continued his political activity, acting as a representative of the bakers' guild. Despite being in exile from Spain, he was nevertheless prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Tribunal for the Repression of Freemasonry and Communism.[3] Later released, he continued his activity in the naval guild. The last survivor of the National Defense Council, Eduardo Val died in 1992.

References

Penela, Carlos (1996). Os galegos anarquistas na Arxentina (in Galician). Vigo: Espiral Maior. ISBN 978-84-88137-98-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Alexander, Robert J. (January 1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Janus Publishing Company Ltd. p. 1067. ISBN 978-1-85756-412-9.
Sánchez Ferré, Pere (1984). "La maçoneria a Catalunya". L' Avenç : Història Dels Països Catalans (in Catalan). L'Avenç (76): 56. ISSN 0210-0150.

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[1] Penela, Carlos (1996). Os galegos anarquistas na Arxentina (in Galician). Vigo: Espiral Maior. ISBN 978-84-88137-98-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

[Alex-2] Alexander, Robert J. (January 1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Janus Publishing Company Ltd. p. 1067. ISBN 978-1-85756-412-9.

[pere56-3] Sánchez Ferré, Pere (1984). "La maçoneria a Catalunya". L' Avenç : Història Dels Països Catalans (in Catalan). L'Avenç (76): 56. ISSN 0210-0150.