Juan Vigón

Juan Vigón Suerodíaz, Marquis of Vigón (30 October 1880, Colunga – 25 May 1955, Madrid) was a Spanish general who fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Nationalist faction.[1]

Juan Vigón Suerodíaz
Photographed by Jalón Ángel in 1930.
Birth nameJuan Vigón Suerodíaz
Born(1880-10-30)October 30, 1880
Colunga, Kingdom of Spain
DiedMay 25, 1955(1955-05-25) (aged 74)
Madrid, Francoist Spain
Allegiance Kingdom of Spain
 Spanish Republic
 Nationalist Spain
Service/branch Spanish Army
RankGeneral
Battles/warsRif War
Spanish Civil War
AwardsMilitary Medal

Biography

Vigón was born in Colunga, Asturias, Spain. Before the war he was chosen by King Alfonso XIII to educate his sons, which he did from November 1925 to 1930. At the beginning of the Second Spanish Republic (14 April 1931) he left the Spanish Army due to his monarchist sympathies. With just a brief return to the army during the Revolution of 1934, he kept out of the army, as lieutenant-colonel in reserve, until the Spanish Civil War broke out on 18 July 1936. In Argentina at the outbreak of the war, he returned to Spain where his first military position was as Chief of Staff of Colonel Alfonso Beorlegui Canet, in the Campaign of Gipuzkoa. Later on he was nominated as Staff Colonel during the Battle of Bilbao and was the architect of the War in the North as a member of the General Staff. He was awarded the Military Medal and became General after the War in the North, became commander's chief of staff at the Aragon Offensive.[2] After the war he served as Minister of the Air Force, became Lieutenant-General and Chief of the Defence High Command (chief of staff of the Spanish Armed Forces) and, until his death at Madrid in 1955, president of the Nuclear Energy Board, and of the Aeronautical Technic National Institute. Franco granted him a posthumous marquisate.[3]

Notes

  1. Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, (1987), P. 1113.
  2. Hugh Thomas, (1987), p. 797.
  3. Hugh Thomas, (1987), p. 948.
Government offices
Preceded by
Juan Yagüe
Ministry of the Air Force
27 June 1940 – 20 July 1945
Succeeded by
Eduardo González-Gallarza
Military offices
New title Chief of the Defence High Command
30 August 1939 – 27 June 1940
Succeeded by
Francisco Martín Moreno
Preceded by
Luis Orgaz Yoldi
Chief of the Defence High Command
15 February 1946 – 25 May 1955
Succeeded by
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas
Spanish nobility
New creation Marquis of Vigón
1955
Succeeded by
Juan Ramón Vigón Sánchez
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