22nd Division (Spain)

The 22nd Division was one of the divisions of the Spanish Republican Army that were organized during the Spanish Civil War on the basis of the Mixed Brigades. It came to operate on the Andalusian and Levante fronts.

22nd Division
22.ª División
ActiveApril 3, 1937–March 1939
Country Spain
Allegiance Republican faction
Branch Spanish Republican Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
EngagementsSpanish Civil War:
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Víctor Álvarez González
Eusebio Sanz Asensio

History

The unit was created on April 3, 1937, within the Army of the South. The 22nd Division was born from the militarization of the old Granada sector.[n. 1] The unit, made up of 51st, 78th and 93rd mixed brigades,[2] was initially under the command of Antonio Gómez de Salazar and, later, Urbano Orad de la Torre.[1][3] As of June 1937, the division was integrated into the IX Army Corps, on the Andalusian front.[4]

In the spring of 1938 the division was sent as reinforcement to the Levante front, being added to the XXI Army Corps.[5] The division was later assigned to the XXIII Army Corps, where it remained until the end of the war.

Controls
Commanders
Commissar
  • José Cuadras Botines, of the PCE;[8]
Chiefs of Staff
  • Ángel Saavedra Gil; [9]
  • Francisco Lucio Bañuelos (from January 1938);
  • José Bueno Quejo (from February 1939); [9]

Order of battle
DateAttached Army CorpsIntegrated Mixed BrigadesBattle front
June 1937IX Army Corps51st, 78th and 93rdAndalusia
April 1938XXI Army Corps79th, 211st and 220thLevante
May 12, 1938XXI Army Corps6th, 129th and 220thLevante
December 1938XXIII Army Corps51st and 55thAndalusia

Notes
  1. The other unit that emerged from the militarization of the old Granada Sector was the 21st Division, commanded by Martín Calvo Calvo.[1]

References
  1. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 47.
  2. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 59.
  3. Zaragoza 1983, p. 58.
  4. Álvarez Rey & Lemus López 1998, p. 444.
  5. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 168.
  6. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 194.
  7. Alpert 2013, p. 350.
  8. Álvarez 1989, p. 180.
  9. Engel 1999, p. 209.

Bibliography
  • Alpert, Michael (2013). The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Cambridge University Press.
  • Álvarez, Santiago (1989). Los comisarios políticos en el Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Ediciós do Castro.
  • Álvarez Rey, Leandro; Lemus López, Encarnación (1998). Historia de Andalucía Contemporánea (in Spanish). Universidad de Huelva.
  • Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Madrid: Almena. ISBN 84-922644-7-0.
  • Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1981). La batalla de Pozoblanco y el cierre de la bolsa de Mérida (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial San Martín.
  • Zaragoza, Cristóbal (1983). Ejército Popular y Militares de la República, 1936-1939 (in Spanish). Barcelona: Ed. Planeta.
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