Manuel Azaña, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Manuel Azaña

Prime Minister of Spain, President of Spain

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1880

Place of Birth: Alcalá de Henares, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1940

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Manuel Azaña

  • Manuel Azaña Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [ma'nwel a'?a?a]; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936) and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). A collaborator in several publications in the 1910s, he stood out in the pro-Allies camp during World War I.
  • Very critical towards the Generation of '98 and not keen of the reimagination of the Spanish Middle Ages, the Imperial Spain nor the 20th yearnings for a praetorian refurbishment of the country, Azaña followed instead the examples of the French Enlightenment and the Third French Republic, and took a political quest for democracy in the 1920s while defending the notion of homeland as the "democratic equality of all citizens towards the law" that made him embrace republicanism. After the Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931, Azaña became Minister of War of the Provisional Government and enacted military reform, looking to develop a modern armed forces with fewer army officers.
  • He later became Prime Minister in October 1931. The Spanish Civil War broke out while he was President.
  • With the defeat of the Republic in 1939, he fled to France, resigned from office, and died in exile shortly afterwards.

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