Onésimo Redondo

Who was Onésimo Redondo?

Onésimo Redondo Ortega was a Spanish Falangist Fascist politician, founder of Juntas Castellanas de Actuación Hispánica, a political group that merged with Ramiro Ledesma's Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista and José Antonio Primo de Rivera's Falange Española.

He was born in Quintanilla de Abajo, Valladolid. He studied Law at the University of Salamanca and was Spanish teacher at the University of Mannheim, where he became acquainted with Nazism. He began to work in Valladolid for the Castilian union of sugar beet harvesters and joined the Acción Nacional during his youth. He was greatly influenced by Enrique Herrera Oria, brother of the founder of the Asociacion Nacional Catolica de Propagandistas and editor of El Debate, Angel Herrera. Enrique Herrera believed that Communism, Freemasonry and Judaism were working to destroy religion and the Fatherland, and encouraged Onesimo to read the virulent anti-Jewish tract by w:fr:Léon de Poncins, Las fuerzas secretas de la Revolucion.