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Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (Born July 5, 1885 in Casares, † August 11, 1936 in Seville, shot) was a Spanish politician from Andalusia, writer, historian and musicologist. Because of his commitment to the autonomy of Andalusia, he becomes the Andalusian autonomy statement in 1983 in the preamble Father of the Andalusian homeland , Called father of the Andalusian homeland. [first]

Blas Infante was the son of Luis Andrade, secretary at the court of Casares and his wife Ginesa Perez de Vargas.
He attended school in Archidona until the end with the Bachillerato exam in 1899. In the course of the crisis caused by the economic crisis of 1898, when Spain had lost its colonies in America and in the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War, the family was in Economic difficulties, and Blas first had to give up studying at the university. From 1900, like his father, he worked as the court secretary at the Casares court, but also studied law at the University of Granada. In 1906 he abandoned his exam as a lawyer.

From 1910 he worked as a notary in Cantillana and came into contact with a scene of politically interested intellectuals. Here his ideas were created from an independent Andalusia. The hard conditions from which the agricultural workers had to suffer led him to deal with socialist ideas. He published his theses in articles for the magazine Betic and in the book published in 1914 Andalusian ideal .

In 1916 he became president of the Andalusian Center of Seville where he the newspaper Andalusia published. He designed the emblem that was accepted in 1918 by the Assembly of Andalusian Provinces in Ronda as a coat of arms of Andalusia and which has been the official coat of arms since December 21, 1982. In 1920 he founded the magazine Forward and published his book Motamid. Last Rey of Sevilla . In 1923 the Andalusian center was banned by the Primo de Rivera government. Blas moved to Isla Cristina, where he opened a notary.

In 1931 he founded a party in Seville Andalusia Liberal Board . After the elections in February 1936, the Andalusian movement intensified its efforts to make an autonomy statute for Andalusia. Blas Infante was elected as President of the new National Assembly, and the Andalusian flag was raised on the town hall of Seville.

In August 1936, members of the Falange stormed the House of Blas Infante in Coria del Rio and caught it. With two other prisoners, he was shot on the street between Sevilla and Carmona without a previous negotiation on August 11th. Today a monument marks the place of execution. [2]

Blas Infante In Coria del Río Museum

In 2001 the Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces de la Junta de Andalucía acquired the residential building, which Blas Infante had built in Coria del Río in 1936 in a style based on the Moorish-Andalusian architecture. The foundation set up a museum and research center for the culture of Andalusia. [3]

  • Andalusian ideal . Infant Balas Foundation, 1982; Erstausqabe: 1915, Seville, Arévalo, 1915. Zweitausg. Madrid, Tour, 1976 (unvollstridändig);
  • The Nations Society and the Andalusian Ideal . Sevilla, Avante, 1919
  • Mutamid. Last king of Seville . 1921, Blas Infante Foundation; 1983
  • The pedagogical dictatorship . A cultural revolution project. Blas Infante Foundation. Seville, 1989. ISBN 84-86814-50-2.
  • Fundamental re -election Vol. 1.: Religion and Moral, Seville, Avante, 1921
  • Origins of the flamenco and secret of Cante Jondo . Seville, Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía, 1980. ISBN 84-500-3524-4.
  • Unknown Andalusia . Seville, Liberalist Board of Andalusia (1932), Hrsg. A. Llorca Fernández. 1980
  • The truth about the plot of Tablada and the Free State of Andalusia . Aljibe, Granada 1979;
  • Andalusia. Theory and political foundation. ALMUZARA, Cordoba 2008, ISBN 978-84-96968-17-2.
  • Benedikt Kofler: Blas infante and the Andalusian ideal. Regionalism, nationalism and utopia in Andalusia (1885–1936) . Vienna 2008, (Diploma thesis (master thesis) University of Vienna, Political Science, 2008, 215 pages, supervisor: Birgit Sauer, Full text PDF; Free, 215 pages, 1.6 MB).
  1. ↑ Kofler 2008. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Report in publico.es
  3. ↑ Blas Infante Museum