Antonio Goicoechea

Antonio Goicoechea (21 January 1876 in Barcelona – 11 February 1953 in Madrid) was an Alfonsine monarchist in Spain during the period of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. He briefly served as Minister of the Interior from 15 April 1919 to 20 July 1919 in a Maura cabinet. He led the Renovación Española political party. Prior to the Civil War, Goicoechea in 1934 had negotiated alongside with Carlist monarchists Antonio Lizarza Iribarren and Rafael de Olazábal y Eulate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on a military agreement that would guarantee Italian support of their movements should a civil war erupt in Spain. However, when the Civil War did erupt in 1936, it had not been initiated by Goicoechea or other members of the agreement, but rather a group of army officers, thus Goicoechea's agreement with Mussolini did not go forward. After Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista emerged in 1937, Goicoechea dissolved Renovación Española and worked as Governor of the Bank of Spain (from 1938 to 1950) and Procurador en Cortes (representative of the Francoist legislature).