Onésimo Redondo

Onésimo Redondo
Representation of Redondo (in the center, with arm raised) in a monument erected to his memory (which has been demolished in compliance with the Historical Memory Law)
Born	Onésimo Redondo Ortega (1905-02-16)16 February 1905 Quintanilla de Onésimo, Valladolid, Spain
Died	24 June 1936(1936-06-24) (aged 31) Labajos, Segovia, Spain
Cause of death	In combat
Monuments	(now demolished)
Nationality	Spanish
Citizenship	Spain
Alma mater	University of Salamanca
Occupation	Lawyer, professor, writer, political activist
Years active	Mid-1920s–1936
Known for	Francoist propaganda
Political party	Castilian Groups of Hispanic Action Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista Falange Española
Spouse(s)	(m. 1931)
Parent(s)	Buenaventura Redondo Iglesias and Juana Ortega Pico

Onésimo Redondo Ortega (16 February 1905 – 24 July 1936) was a Spanish Falangist politician. He founded the Castilian Groups of Hispanic Action (Juntas Castellanas de Actuación Hispánica), a political group that merged with Ramiro Ledesma's Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (Unions of the National-Syndicalist Offensive) and José Antonio Primo de Rivera's Falange Española.

Together with Ledesma and Primo de Rivera, Redondo was one of the key figures of Francoist propaganda.

Redondo was born in Quintanilla de Abajo (renamed after him as Quintanilla de Onésimo), Valladolid to a family of landowners. His father was Buenaventura Redondo Iglesias and his mother was Juana Ortega Pico. He studied jurisprudence at the University of Salamanca and subsequently taught Spanish at the University of Mannheim (1927-1928), where he became acquainted with Nazism. (Historian Paul Preston has written that Redondo's anti-Semitism derived more from fifteenth century Castile than from Nazi models however, though he did translate Hitler's Mein Kampf into Spanish.) He worked 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 Asociación Nacional Catolica de Propagandistas and editor of El Debate, Ángel Herrera Oria. Enrique Herrera believed that Communism, Freemasonry and Judaism were working to destroy religion and the Fatherland, and encouraged Redondo to read the virulent anti-Jewish tract by Léon de Poncins, Las fuerzas secretas de la Revolucion.