José Calvo Sotelo, 1st Duke of Calvo Sotelo, GE was a Spanish jurist and politician. He was the minister of finance during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and a leading figure during the Spanish Second Republic. During this period. he became an important part of Spanish Renovation, a monarchist movement. Calvo Sotelo's assassination in July 1936 by the bodyguard of PSOE party leader Indalecio Prieto was an immediate prelude to the triggering of the Spanish military coup of July 1936 that was plotted since February 1936, the partial failure of which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
José Calvo Sotelo
Calvo Sotelo dressed in the uniform of the Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado.
Calvo Sotelo giving a speech in the Urumea Fronton of San Sebastián (1935).
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Lithography of the heroic actions of Primo de Rivera during the First Melillan campaign, 1893
Primo de Rivera in military attire, c. 1920
Announcement of the new government in Madrid