Melecio Álvarez Garrido

Melecio Álvarez Garrido (Villalpando, March 21, 1896 - Paterna, October 23, 1940) was a Leonese anarcho-syndicalist.

Melecio Álvarez Garrido
Born(1896-03-21)March 21, 1896
Villalpando, Zamora,
León
DiedOctober 23, 1940(1940-10-23) (aged 44)
Paterna, Valencia,
 Spain
Service Confederal militias (1936-1937)
Spanish Republican Army (1937-1939)
Years of service1936-1939
Unit82nd Mixed Brigade
92nd Mixed Brigade
Battles/warsSpanish Civil War

Biography

A waiter by profession, he was affiliated with the National Confederation of Labor (CNT), forming part of the CNT Gastronomy Union in Valencia. During the period of the Second Spanish Republic he participated in various political activities. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the confederal militias, participating in the organization of an anarchist column. He was in favor of the militarization of the militias, openly opposing José Pellicer Gandía - founder of the Iron Column. Later he became part of the political commissariat of the People's Army of the Republic. During the war, he served as commissar of the 82nd and 92nd mixed brigades,[1][2] fighting on various fronts. He was captured by the nationalists at the end of the war, He was shot in Paterna on October 23, 1940.[3]

References
  1. Álvarez 1989, pp. 182, 184.
  2. Engel 1999, p. 79.
  3. Gabarda Cebellán 2007, p. 350.

Bibliography
  • Álvarez, Santiago (1989). Los comisarios políticos en el Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Ediciós do Castro.
  • Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Madrid: Almena. ISBN 84-922644-7-0.
  • Gabarda Cebellán, Vicent (2007). Els afusellaments al País Valencià (1938-1956) (in Spanish). Universidad de Valencia.
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