Talk:Lluís Companys

Council of War
What does the statement " 72 years later, the council of war that sentenced him is still in force" mean? The source is not in English and the statement as it is doesn't make much sense, is it saying that the regime that sentenced him is still in power? 123.243.215.92 (talk) 16:19, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Three years later and no one can be arsed to respond to your comment, so I have done what I routinely do with meaningless nonsense. If it is incomprehensible, there can be no loss to anyone in its simple deletion.Optymystic (talk) 19:33, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Birth
Was he born in 1883 or 1882? Sabbut 10:50, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Death
According to Burns, Jimmy Barca: a people's passion, p. 126, Companys was "executed on October 14, 1940 after a summary trial for 'military rebellion'" rather than on October 15. Anyone have anything saying differently? Isaiahcambron 03:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

There is a sign near the place of his execution at Montjuic castle that starts: "At 6.20 a.m. on 15th October 1940 president Companys was taken to the castle's northern or Santa Eulalia graveyard. He bade farewell to the persons who were accompanying him, walked over to the wall, looked without flinching at the execution squad and cried out:'For Catalonia' Then the voice ordering 'aim and fire' was followed by a volley of shots." The reference on the sign is "Arias Nacional de Catalunya" (I think) but I am not certian of its correctness. UselessFactMan (talk) 18:57, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Edits
I edited a fair chunk of this page, including removing the tags making the bottom half invisible, and wanted to make it clear here what I was doing.

First, I changed "Spanish politician" back to "Catalan politician" not because of any personal nationalist sense, but because of the fact that Companys was a Catalan politician primarily rather than a Spanish politician. He never served in the national parlaiment, but was a Barcelona councilman and the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, suggesting he was not a national political figure, but rather a more local figure. Thus Catalan rather than Spanish seems the more appropriate descriptor for a man whose entire career took place in one location. I equate it to calling someone a Colorado politician rather than an American politician. It is suggestive neither of his nationality, nor his politics, but it is suggestive of where he plied his trade.

Second, I've changed his date of death to October 14 rather than October 15. I have provided a reference for this change. If the reference is mistaken and other references can be provided, please do so. I realize that the Spanish version of this page lists his death as October 15, but there is no reference provided to prove that.

Thirdly, I've done some small grammatical edits and additions of translations. I do not speak Catalan (but do speak Spanish), so if my translations are off, please let correct them. I also correct the format of the lead to reflect general Wikipedia practices (birthdate n-dash deathdate).

Thanks, Isaiah (talk) 15:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

First paragraph
As with other biographies, his position as President of Catalonia should be stated before his profession as Catalan Spanish Politician.--Civit cardona (talk) 09:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Pardon (1936)
I'm trying to track down information regarding the exact nature of the way Companys et al were released from prison upon the formation of the Popular Front government in 1936. My understanding is that they must have been formally pardoned by the president or congreso but I can't find any information about how/when this happened. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.161.37.2 (talk) 09:50, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

'Azotedanazis' single edit
An editor with the name 'Azotedanazis' made a single edit it seems to wikipedia,  and it was to the spanish civil war section of this article on Companys. It consisted of a lurid description of anarchist-socialist barcelona, including the burning of every church etc and could only lead one to conclude that the sooner the forces of order extirpated these scoundrels the better. And yet, - the Sagrada familia survived, George Orwell saw barcelona and a belief in the merits of socialism was born within him,  a very moral man, - and consider that the forces of order being implicitly urged in the edit to take control, are the murderous stalinists, and the churches  and the Roman Catholic hierarchy, whose buildings, some of them, were targeted, most of it, was pro- Fascist, (I think one brave catalan bishop was pro the Republic, a couple of others )  and by extension, sine the Fascists of Spain had nazi support,  the Catholic hierarchy was pro-Nazi. So the edit is highly selective, it is tendentious, it pushes the reader to a support of 'order'  against these louts, but 'order' was Stalinist. In short the edit introduces a one sided argument that leads the reader to conclude Companys was an angel of disorder. If Barcelona in 1936-37 is to be set up and Companys place in it discussed it needs more than this fascistic tendentious edit. so i reverted it to a more matter of fact and plain description, the version that existed before 'Azotedanazis'  visited the page to describe the anarchist barcelona with his one sided pen. Another editor restored the edit of azotedanazis but I wanted to say something about what prompted my edits. barcelona 1936-37 was surely complex and it isn't helpful to have some kind of pro Franco, pro- roman catholic hierarchy, caricature of a complicated , tragic reality stand for that whole period of history 78.147.75.54 (talk) 20:47, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

This article deliberately omits an important part of Lluis Companys' bibliography. He was a genocide.
This article deliberately omits an important part of Lluis Companys' bibliography. Specifically, it hides the fact that Companys ordered the murder of at least 9000 Catalan civilians, if we take a fairly conservative and consensual figure, simply because they were Christians, capitalists or felt Spanish. Their names are publicly available. The summary of his instruction stated his responsibility for the deaths of 25000 Catalans. Companys is considered a genocide by many Catalans, however the pro-independence extremists continue to name hundreds of streets after him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎84.123.9.117 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Genocide?
Calling that someone "authorized and lead [a] genocide" requires more than a reference to an online source that is clearly POV. Unless a reliable textbook citation is sourced, this claim muste be deleted, or at least formulated as a controversy/minority view, not as an accepted fact.