Antonio Ortega

Who is Antonio Ortega?

Antonio Ortega,. Before the war he was a lieutenant of Carabineros of the Second Spanish Republic stationed in Irun, was appointed on August 6, 1936 civil governor of Guipuzcoa. He took command of the Republican forces during the later part of the Campaign of Guipúzcoa after the capture of Augusto Pérez Garmendia at Oiartzun. In 1937 he was appointed secretary of security and joined to the PCE. According to Thomas, he was the responsible of the arrest of Andreu Nin. Because of this, he was dismissed by the minister of the interior, Julian Zugazagoitia and after that he was transferred to a field command. In March 1939, he was the commander of the III Army Corps of the Army of the Centre and supported Luis Barceló against the Consejo Nacional de Defensa. At the end of the war, he was captured by the Nationalists and executed.