Felipe Alfau Mendoza

Felipe Alfau Mendoza (c.1845/1848 – 1937) was a Spanish military officer. He served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia.

Felipe Alfau Mendoza
Photographed by Christian Franzen
Born1845 or 1848
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died1937
Casablanca, French Morocco
Service/branchSpanish Army

Biography

Born in Santo Domingo,[1][note 1] son to the Dominican trinitario Felipe Alfau y Bustamante and Rosa Josefa Mendoza Pineda.[2] Leader of the first brigade of Jägers of Melilla, he was promoted to division general in 1910.[3]

After the 1912 Treaty of Fes and the entry in Tétouan of the Spanish forces commanded by Alfau on 19 February 1913,[4] he became the first High Commissioner of the newly created Spanish protectorate in Morocco on 5 April 1913.[5] He left the post on 15 August 1913, when he was replaced by José Marina Vega.[5]

Later, he was appointed as Captain General of Catalonia,[3] in 1915.[6] Alfau—who, according Francisco J. Romero Salvadó did not take the Juntas de Defensa seriously—[7] was fired on 27 May 1916 in the context of the 1917 military crisis, and was replaced again by the General Marina.[8]

He died in Casablanca in 1937.[9]

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  1. Sources mention either 1845[2] or 25 September 1848[1][3] as birthdate.
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