Ricardo Sanz García

Ricardo Sanz García (1898–1986) was a leader of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. He led the Durruti Column following the death of its namesake.

Ricardo Sanz García
Born1898 (1898)
Valencia, Spain
Died1986 (aged 87–88)
OccupationTextile worker, militant

Early life and career

Ricardo Sanz García was born in Valencia in 1898. In 1916, he moved to Barcelona, where he worked in textiles, joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) labor union, and was imprisoned for two years. Sanz joined the anarchist action group Los Solidarios. To avoid detainment, Sanz went to France, where he smuggled weapons. During the 1930s Second Spanish Republic, Sanz joined the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) and became a CNT leader within Catalonia. He organized the CNT militias at the start of the Spanish Civil War. In November 1936,[1] following Buenaventura Durruti's death, his former assistant Sanz came to lead the Durruti Column after Juan García Oliver declined.[2] After failing to capture Zaragoza, Sanz was interned in French and Algerian concentration camps. He lived the remainder of his life in France, where he wrote two memoirs. Sanz died in 1986.[1]

Works
  • Los que fuimos a Madrid: Columna Durruti (1969)
  • Figuras de la revolución española (1972)

References
  1. Salvadó 2013.
  2. Kern 1978, pp. 210–211.

Bibliography
  • Kern, Robert (1978). Red Years/Black Years: A Political History of Spanish Anarchism, 1911–1937. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. ISBN 0-915980-83-5.
  • Salvadó, Francisco J. Romero (2013). "Sanz García, Ricardo". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.

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