Angel Vera Coronel

Angel Vera Coronel

Angel Vera Coronel (Elda, 1888 - Pedrola, province of Zaragoza, July 20, 1937) was a Spanish politician.

Founder of the Republican Committee in Elda, a member of the Republican Left, he was Civil Governor of Cáceres and Cadiz during the first years of the Second Republic. He was named Governor of Zaragoza after the victory of the Popular Front in 1936, position that occupied during the coup of 18 of July that gave rise to Civil War. It maintained the Civil Government faithful to the Republic although the barracks of Saragossa were ready to revolt. He kept the government building for two days with some loyalists and, a few hours before being detained, in a desperate attempt to avoid the triumph of the coup, he delivered arms to the few militias ready to fight. Arrested by the Surveillance Services of the Civil Government itself, which ended up joining the coup, and following the orders of Generals Monasterio and Miguel Cabanellas - who until that moment had a personal friendship with him - he was in Torrero prison for a year, next to the leaders of the CNT and the PSOE, to be later shot, although this fact was never officially recognized, being attributed to an attempt to escape his death in the neighborhood of Pedrola, along with twenty other prisoners. The crime was justified by the officer in charge of execution as "the espadrilles are falling (...) and some of the ties have to fall."

He was a Mason initiated in Alicante in the Loggia Numancia nº3 of the GOE, with the symbolic name of Plutarch. He founded the Love Lodge in Elda, of which he was his first secretary. Also participated of the capitular degrees in the Lucentino Chapter of Alicante. Bibliography

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