Bernabé Argüelles de Paz | |
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Born | 1912 Lena, Asturias, Spain |
Died | March 24, 1943 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | (aged 30–31)
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service | ![]() ![]() |
Years of service | 1936–1939 |
Unit | 133rd Mixed Brigade |
Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War |
Bernabé Argüelles de Paz (1912–1943) was an Asturian anarchist.
Born in the Asturian town of Pola de Lena in 1912, he was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT). After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the anarcho-syndicalist militias. [a] Later he became part of the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army, serving as commissar of the 133rd Mixed Brigade. [2] At the end of the war he was detained by the nationalists, being imprisoned in the provincial prison of Huesca.
Thanks to the intervention of the Ponzán group, in mid-1940 he was able to escape from prison together with other imprisoned anarchists. [1] He managed to reach Catalonia, where he developed an intense activity underground. Argüelles was part of the Aragón-Cataluña interregional committee of the CNT. [3] On March 8, 1943, he was arrested by Francoist security forces. Tried by a court-martial, he was sentenced to death and executed by garrote on March 24, 1943, in Barcelona. [4] [5]
Bernabé Argüelles de Paz | |
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Born | 1912 Lena, Asturias, Spain |
Died | March 24, 1943 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | (aged 30–31)
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service | ![]() ![]() |
Years of service | 1936–1939 |
Unit | 133rd Mixed Brigade |
Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War |
Bernabé Argüelles de Paz (1912–1943) was an Asturian anarchist.
Born in the Asturian town of Pola de Lena in 1912, he was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT). After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the anarcho-syndicalist militias. [a] Later he became part of the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army, serving as commissar of the 133rd Mixed Brigade. [2] At the end of the war he was detained by the nationalists, being imprisoned in the provincial prison of Huesca.
Thanks to the intervention of the Ponzán group, in mid-1940 he was able to escape from prison together with other imprisoned anarchists. [1] He managed to reach Catalonia, where he developed an intense activity underground. Argüelles was part of the Aragón-Cataluña interregional committee of the CNT. [3] On March 8, 1943, he was arrested by Francoist security forces. Tried by a court-martial, he was sentenced to death and executed by garrote on March 24, 1943, in Barcelona. [4] [5]