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Lluís Companys i Jover

Lluís Companys i Jover
Lluis Companys
Order: 123th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Term of Office: 1 January 1934 - 15 October 1940
Predecessor: Francesc Maciā i Llussā
Successor: Josep Irla i Bosch
Date of Birth: 21 June 1882
Place of Birth: el Tarrōs , Urgell
Date of Death: 15 October 1940
Place of Death: Barcelona
Political Party: ERC

Lluís Companys i Jover ( 21 June 188215 October 1940) was a Catalan politician and leader of the Esquerra Party (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya). He served as Minister of the Navy of the Spanish Republic, and President of Catalan Generalitat de Catalunya in 1933.

Exiled to France in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War, he was returned by German agents to Francoist Spain, and shot at Montjuīc Castle (Barcelona) in 1940.

The principal stadium used for the 1992 Summer Olympics, located on the Montjuīc hill and currently used by the football club Espanyol, is officially named in his memory.


Preceded by:
Francesc Maciā i Llussā
President of Catalonia
1934 - 1940
Succeeded by:
Josep Irla i Bosch






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