Victor Fraiz Villanueva. Proceso a la FETE y a la escuela republicana

Abstract

[Resumen] La represion franquista sobre el profesorado afecto principalmente a quienes tenian una ideologia de izquierdas y defendian el laicismo republicano, circunstancias que solian compartir buena parte de los afiliados a la Federacion Espanola de Trabajadores de la Ensenanza, y desde luego sus lideres. Uno de esos lideres fue el pontevedres Victor Fraiz Villanueva, que sufrio dos consejos de guerra debido a su actuacion politica, sindical y docente, uno en 1934 y otro, que lo condujo ante un peloton de fusilamiento, en 1937. En este trabajo se analizan sus ultimos tres anos de vida.

[Abstract] The repression exerted by the Franco regime on teachers mainly affected people with a left-leaning ideology who defended Republican secularism. This circumstance was quite common among the members of the Spanish Federation of Education Workers, especially among the organization’s leaders. One of these leaders was Víctor Fraiz Villanueva, a native of Pontevedra, who was court-martialed twice because of his political, union and teaching activities. He was tried in 1934 and again in 1937, and was eventually executed by a firing squad. This article examines the last three years of his life.