President of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Telmo
In office 1956–1975
José Luis Estrada Segalerva (4 July 1906 – 23 February 1976) was a Spanish lawyer, writer, state tax inspector, politician, and sports leader.[1][2] Among the various positions he held are those of Procurador en Cortes, delegate of the Treasury, president of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo [es] from 1956 to 1975, but he is best remembered as the mayor of Malaga from 1947 to 1952,[1][2] and as the president of Spanish club Málaga CF in three different stints between 1950 and 1958.[3]
Professional and political career
José Luis Estrada was born in Málaga on 4 July 1906, as the second of three children and the only son of Luisa Segalerva (1873–1944) and José Estrada (1874–1936), a lawyer and minister of grace and justice of the government of Dámaso Berenguer.[4] He married Josefa Pallarés Moreno.[4]
Just like his father, Estrada became a lawyer, but also a technical fiscal inspector, or state tax inspector, and as such, he served as a delegate of the Treasury, Procurador en Cortes, and even as mayor of Malaga from 1947 to 1952.[1][2][4]
Sporting career
Estrada served as the president of Málaga CF on three occasions, first from 12 June 1950 to 16 April 1952; then from 13 August 1953 to 3 November 1955; and then from 27 June 1956 to 17 March 1958, although no one took charge of the presidency between his second and third term.[3]
Under his presidency, the club was coached by Ricardo Zamora, Antonio Barrios, Chales, Pasarín, Ramón Colón, and Manuel Echezarreta.[3] With Zamora, Málaga was relegated to the Segunda División for the first time in the club's history,[3] but with Barrios, the club returned to the elite after obtaining their first Second Division championship and, with it, their second promotion to the top category.[5]
His presidency also saw the first player from the reserve team, Atlético Malagueño, established in 1948, to be promoted to the first team.[3]
Writing career
Estrada was also a writer and poet, and in 1952, he founded the magazine La Caracola;[1][4] some sources state that he directed it until 1975,[1] while others state that its direction was given to Fernadez Canivell.[4] Either way, this magazine transcended the provincial scope, obtaining the collaboration of the most famous celebrities of the moment and becoming one of the best Spanish poetry magazines.[1] He also stood out for his poetic work, with the best works of his collections of poems being Intimidad (1939); Llantos del cautiverio (1939), both about his stay in prison during the Spanish Civil War, between 1936 and 1939; Fuente de oro (1940); Corte y cortijo (1942); and "Poems of the Holy Week of Málaga" (1970), in collaboration with Baltasar Peña Hinojosa.[1] He published his poems in numerous Spanish and American magazines.[1]
Estrada also devoted himself to research work, focused on the recovery of the history of Malaga, in books such as the "History of Coín" (1965), carried out with Alberto Massena;[1][6] and his Efemérides malagueñas (1970), published the previous year in the daily Diario Sur, which was a very important work for Malaga.[1][4] He also wrote the "Catalogue of Malaga" (1973), where he compiled data, background information on positions, entities, corporations and societies of all kinds.[1]
In 1956, Estrada was appointed as the president of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo [es], a position that he held for 19 years, until 1975.[2] Among other decorations, he is in possession of the Grand Cross of Civil Merit.[1]
Death
Estrada died in Málaga on 23 February 1976, at the age of 69, and now has a street in that city named after him.[4][7]
