Cayetano Redondo Aceña (7 August 188821 May 1940) was a Spanish politician,

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, journalist and

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. A member of the

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, he served as Mayor of Madrid from November 1936 to May 1937, during the

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Biography

Born on 7 August 1888 in

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, he moved young to

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with his family. He worked as

. He became a member of the

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(UGT) in 1905. In 1918, Redondo was leader of the National Federation of ''Juventudes Socialistas'', the youth wing of the

(PSOE). He worked for several political papers, including '' El Socialista''. In 1931, he was elected as Madrid municipal councillor at the , in representation of Chamberí. He was entrusted with the municipal government area of Social Work and with the responsibility over the district of Universidad. Later in the year, Redondo was elected on a PSOE platform as deputy to the

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of the

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in representation of the province of Segovia at the 1931 general election. A noted

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, he was the Spanish representative at the Summer School organised by the Austrian Socialist Esperantist League in 1927, and he also delivered the opening speech of the 9th Spanish Congress of Esperanto in 1932. After the start of the

, at the height of the attacks and bombings carried by the Francoist faction on Madrid, Mayor Pedro Rico fled for

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hidden in a car boot. Redondo was elected his replacement on 8 November, although the decisions of the Defence Council of Madrid largely determined the action of the municipal government. Redondo left the post of mayor in April 1937, replaced by Rafael Henche. After Madrid fell, Redondo was captured by Francoist forces and executed by a

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at the walls of the

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on 21 May 1940. Buried in a mass grave, his remains were later moved and buried together with those of José Gómez Osorio, the last Republican civil governor of Madrid, shot months earlier, thanks to the concern of the family of the latter. His grave is near the place chosen in memory of " The Thirteen Roses."

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