Ramón Serrano Súñer
| Ramón Serrano Suñer | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 30 January 1938 – 16 October 1940 |
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| Succeeded by | Valentín Galarza Morante |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office October 16, 1940 – 3 September 1942 |
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| Succeeded by | Francisco Gómez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ramón Serrano Suñer 12 September 1901 Cartagena, Spain |
| Died | 1 September 2003 (aged 101) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | FET y de las JONS |
| Spouse(s) | Ramona (Zita) Polo y Martínez-Valdés |
| Relations | Francisco Franco (brother-in-law) |
| Children | Fernando Francisco Jaime José María Ramón |
| Alma mater | Complutense University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Nickname(s) | Cuñadísimo (Brother-in-law-ísimo, a joke on "Generalísimo") |
Ramón Serrano Suñer (12 September 1901 – 1 September 2003), was a Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Spanish Falange caucus (1936), and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. Serrano Suñer was known for his pro-Third Reich stance during World War II, when he supported the sending of the Blue Division to fight along with the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. He was also the brother-in-law of the Spanish dictator General Franco, for which he was nicknamed Cuñadísimo. (Franco himself was, officially, the generalísimo.)
Serrano Suñer was the founder of the 67,000-strong Spanish blind people's organization ONCE on 13 December 1938, as well as of the EFE press-agency, in 1939. EFE was founded with Navarrese journalist Manuel Aznar Zubigaray and his Basque falangist son Manuel Aznar Acedo (a Spanish army officer, journalist and propaganda broadcaster), the father of José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. Serrano Suñer also founded the Radio Intercontinental radio network in 1950.
He was born Ramón Serrano y Suñer in Cartagena, the fifth of seven children born to an engineer working in the Valencian port of Castellón de la Plana. Although he was an excellent student, his father disapproved of his plans to become a lawyer. He enrolled at the Madrid University to study law, just the same. A fellow student was José Antonio Primo de Rivera (son of Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, and founder of the Falange). He also spent a year in Bologna, during which he developed a taste for fascism.
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