Francisco Jordán

Francisco Jordán
General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
In office
24 August 1916 – February 1917
Preceded byManuel Andreu
Succeeded byFrancisco Miranda
Personal details
Born(1886-09-13)13 September 1886
Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Andalusia, Spain
Died30 June 1921(1921-06-30) (aged 34)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
NationalityAndalusian
Political partyConfederación Nacional del Trabajo
OccupationCarpenter, trade unionist

Francisco Jordán (13 September 1886 – 30 June 1921) was an Andalusian anarcho-syndicalist. He settled in Barcelona, where he worked as a carpenter and was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT).[1] At the national plenary session on 24 August 1916, he was elected General Secretary, replacing Manuel Andreu Colomer, and held the position until his resignation after being arrested in 1917.[2]

Biography

Born in 1886, as a young man he lived in Pinos Puente, in the province of Granada, where he joined the CNT.[1] He later moved to Barcelona, where in various writings he encouraged disobedience and not going to mass.[1] For these publications he was locked in a punishment cell. In 1911 he was sentenced to four years in prison for being in possession of explosives.[1] In 1916 he was elected General Secretary of the CNT, a position from which he resigned in February of the following year after being arrested for alleged resistance to authority.[1][2]

He was assassinated on 30 June 1921, in the streets of Barcelona by the gunmen of the Sindicatos Libres.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Montagut, Eduardo (4 January 2018). "Los socialistas y la detención del anarcosindicalista Francisco Jordán" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Jordán, Francisco" (in Catalan). veuobrera.org. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
Preceded by General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
CNT-FAI
1916–1917 		Succeeded by