Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
Spanish Army officer and politician
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- Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 1st Marquess of Gutiérrez Mellado (30 April 1912 – 15 December 1995) was a Spanish Army officer and politician who played a relevant role during the Spanish transition to democracy.
- From 1977 to 1979 he also served as Minister of Defence (the first since the Civil War).
- Gutiérrez Mellado's most popular image is that at the Spanish Congress of the Deputies during the failed 1981 Spanish coup d'état, where he physically confronted the armed Guardia Civil troops led by Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero.
- However, his uncle, Saturnino Calleja, a well-known publisher, paid for his education at the Royal College of San Anton in Madrid, which was an elite boarding school at the time.
- Five months after the proclamation of the Spanish Second Republic he was promoted to second lieutenant and later finished his military education at the Academy of Artillery and Engineers of Segovia, where he graduated as first lieutenant in July 1933, having achieved top grades in his class.
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WikipediaManuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 1st Marquess of Gutiérrez Mellado (30 April 1912 – 15 December 1995) was a Spanish Army officer and politician who played a relevant role during the Spanish transition to democracy.
During his military career he served in relevant Army offices and began a political career in 1976, when the Prime Minister appointed him as First Deputy Prime Minister for Defence Affairs. From 1977 to 1979 he also served as Minister of Defence (the first since the Civil War).
In 1994, the socialist government of Felipe González granted him the honorary rank of Captain General.
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