Ramón Serrano Súñer
Ramón Serrano Súñer (September 12th 1901 - September 1st 2003) was a Spanish politician.
Biography
Wire of an engineer, it was born with Carthagène in 1901. It made studies of right, in particular at the sides of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera (wire of the Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera). It spent one year to Bologna, where it was caught passion for the Fascisme.
He lived then in Saragossa, where in spite of the pressing requests of Jose Primo de Rivera, he refused to take share with the Phalange. Ramón Serrano Súñer and Francisco Franco were brothers-in-law: he had married two sisters, Serrano Súñer Zita Polo there Martinez-Valdès and Franco Carmen Polo there Martinez-Valdès. Ramón Serrano Súñer and Zita had six children.
Súñer sat among the conservatives with the the Cortes of 1933 with 1936. It supported Franco after the release of the Guerre of Spain, during which it was with the head of the Phalange. In July 1936, it had been stopped for conspiracy against the Republic, and had been locked up in a republican prison. He escaped in October 1936, disguised as a woman. He joined France on an Argentinian ship, then went to Salamanque where the provisional government of Free sat, and worked at his sides throughout all conflict. His/her two brothers were shot by the Republicans, whereas itself was to die centenary.
Of 1937 with 1940, he was Minister of Interior Department, and cumulated this wallet with that of Minister for the Press and the Propaganda of 1939 at 1940, and created on this occasion the news agency of State EFE. From 1940 with 1942, he was Foreign Minister, and managed to set up solid relations with Mussolini.
Even if he worked most of the time in the same direction that Franco, he was opposed to the increasing influence of the Catholic church in the policy of the Phalange. Moreover, Suñer showed Franco to set up a true worship of the personality, while Franco reproached Suñer for being a factor of dissension within its own party. However, it continued to play a great part in the installation of the structures of the Spanish State - its influence was such as one called it the " Cuñadísimo" ( cuñado in Spanish = brother-in-law: a pun on " Generalísimo").
In 1940, Súñer and Franco met Hitler with Hendaye to discuss a possible engagement of Spain in the Second world war. Súñer tried to convince Franco to join the Axe, but Spain remained neutral throughout the conflict. Hitler was disappointed that Súñer does not insist more so that Franco supports Germany, and described it like " digging fall it from Spain nouvelle".
In 1942, it had to give up its load of Foreign Minister and president of the council of the Phalange. After the Second world war, Súñer wrote in Franco to propose to him to set up a transition government where the exiled intellectuals would have their place, but Franco did not take this proposal with the serious one.
Súñer ends up withdrawing public life in 1947, and turned to a legal career - he was prosecutor until 1957. He financed in writing pad Dionisio Ridruejo, which was with the head of a clandestine political movement.
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