Enrique Barrau Salado Explained

Enrique Barrau Salado
Birth Date:1912
Birth Place:Seville, Spain
Death Date:1961
Death Place:Seville
Nationality:Spanish
Known For:conspirator, military commander
Occupation:military
Party:Carlism

Enrique Barrau Salado (1912-1961) was a Spanish military and a Carlist militant. He is particularly known because of his role in the Andalusian anti-Republican Traditionalist conspiracy of the mid-1930s, his engagement in the July 1936 coup in Seville, and then for his position as a requeté commander in the Tercio Virgen de los Reyes battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Afterwards he became a professional officer in the army and retired in the rank of a major. After the war he did not engage openly in politics, yet among the Andalusian Carlists he remained an iconic point of reference. Some fictitious literary characters have been modeled after him.

Family and youth

The French noble family of Barrau was traditionally related to Toulouse; some of its representatives served as military among Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis, during the anti-liberal French intervention in Spain in the 1820s.[1] It is unclear whether the great-grandfather of Enrique, Jules Barrau, was among them,[2] yet his Toulouse-born son and Enrique’s paternal grandfather, Leoncio Barrau Galinier (1837-1924),[3] studied in Seville and became a civil engineer specializing in roads. He grew to a distinguished member of the hispalense bourgeoisie;[4] in the mid-1870s he was CEO of the Alcalá railway line,[5] while in the mid-1880s he was member of the board and manager of Caminos de Hierro de Este de España. Barrau Galinier co-purchased the defunct San Agustín convent and turned it into a food market,[6] operational until 1900.[7] In the early 20th century he engaged financially in Banco Díez y Vergara, managed an undefined "minerales" business[8] and remained CEO of Ferrocarril de Sevilla, Alcalá, Carmona.[9] He was a cultured person; apart from owning Teatro San Fernando and Teatro Cervantes,[10] he also published a booklet on the San Agustín convent.[11]

Barrau Galinier’s son and Enrique’s father, Enrique Barrau Grande (1871-1930),[12] studied medicine and is mentioned either as "medico-cirujano"[13] or "medico oculista",[14] yet there is no information whether he has ever practiced. He inherited shares in his father’s railway business[15] and in the 1920s served as manager of Compañía S.A.C.[16] He married Carmen Salado Iznaga (1879-1957),[17] daughter to a respected Seville doctor;[18] she was cousin to the later rector of the Seville University, Mariano Mota Salado.[19] The couple had 4 children, apart from the oldest Enrique also Leoncio,[20] Carmen[21] and Antonio.[22] Barrau Grande died in mysterious circumstances, a day after having sold majority shares in C.S.A.C., the railway company that he owned and managed.[23] None of the sources consulted provides information on childhood and early education of Enrique, apart that he was strongly influenced by his maternal Salado family.[24] Given his tumultuous youth, punctuated by detentions and arrests, it is not clear whether he pursued a university education. In 1933-1934 as alférez de complimento he was undergoing military training in 8. Regimiento de Caballería in Seville.[25] There is no information on his professional engagements prior to outbreak of the civil war. Already after the conflict, in 1940,[26] Barrau married Petra García Vélez (died 1973);[27] there is nothing closer known either about her or her family. The couple had 5 children: Enrique, Petra, Aurelio, Antonio and Carmen Barrau García.[28] None of them became a public figure, though Antonio and Aurelio remained active as Carlists until the 21st century;[29] Antonio was in executive of the Andalusian CTC,[30] while Aurelio remained active in the post-war requeté organisation;[31] his daughter and Enrique’s granddaughter, Angeles Barrau Lena, acted as the Andalusian CTC treasurer.[32]

Republic

There is nothing known of political preferences of Barrau’s paternal ancestors,[33]

Notes and References

  1. this was the case of Auguste de Barrau (1792-1848)
  2. Jules Barrau entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was married to Delfine Galinier, see Delfina Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  3. full name Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier, see Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was married to Adela Grande Pérez (1844-1939), see Adela Grande Perez entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  4. he lived at calle Lombardos 9-11, now calle Múñoz y Oliver, Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier, see Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  5. La Correspondencia de España 26.12.74, available here
  6. in 1883, see Alberto Fernández González, El desaparecido monasterio sevillano de San Agustín, [in:] Archivo Español de Arte LXXXVI (2013), pp. 317, 326
  7. Fernández González 2013, p. 327
  8. Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración 1894, Madrid 1894, p. 1991, available here
  9. Historia de la Banca de Andalucía, [in:] Banca Andalucia blog 04.02.15, available here l
  10. Manuel Jesús Roldan, Un barco hundido y la marcha Virgen del Valle, [in:] ABC [Sevilla] 09.11.15, available here
  11. Leoncio Barrau, Notas históricas acerca el ex-convento de San Agustín de Sevilla y ex-presidio peninsular, Sevilla 1881
  12. Enrique Barrau Grande entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  13. El Liberal 23.01.30, available here
  14. El Siglo Futuro 17.01.30, available here
  15. the Barrau Galinier wealth was inherited also his brother (Enrique’s paternal uncle), Julio Barrau Grande, in the press also dubbed "prestigioso industrial", see El Liberal 04.09.26, available here. The third brother, Alberto Barrau Grande, was emerging as a great Seville baritone singer; in 1896 he perished in a Guadalquivir disaster, Jesús Roldan 2015
  16. for 1923 see El Liberal 14.08.23, available here, for 1927 see El Liberal 21.12.27, available here
  17. Carmen Salado Iznaga entry, [in:] Geneanet entry, available here
  18. her father and the maternal grandfather of Enrique was Antonio de Padua Salado Moreno (1834-1900), Antonio de Padua Salado Moreno entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was himself the son of a doctor; he practiced first in Huelva and then in Seville, becoming a very respected specialist, Antonio Salado y Moreno, [in:] Galería de sevillanos notables service, available here, see also El Guadalete 15.10.00, available here a. He was married to Carmen Iznaga de Iznaga (1853-1919), see Carmen Iznaga e Iznaga entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  19. already as rector of the university Mariano Mota Salado was witness at Barrau’s wedding in 1940, Falange Española 18.08.40, available here
  20. Leoncio Barrau Salado (1916-1996), married to Carmen de Velasco López de Letona, also joined requeté and later served in the army, see Leoncio Barrau Salado entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here, also Boletín Oficial del Estado 20.10.38, available here
  21. Carmen Barrau Salado was married to Manuel Peinado Campara, see Carmen Barrau Salado entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  22. El Liberal 23.01.30, available here
  23. Diario de Cordoba de comercio, industria, administracion, noticias y avisos 18.01.30, available here
  24. ABC 14.06.96, available here
  25. Diario Oficial del Ministerio de la Guerra 12.07.35, available here, also Melchor Ferrer, Historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. XXX, Seville 1979, p. 88
  26. FE 18.08.40, available here, see also Petra García Vélez entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  27. ABC 22.03.73, available here
  28. ABC 14.08.07, available here
  29. No se han notado todas las diligencias en averiguación de los hechos de Montejurra, [in:] El País 12.01.77, available here
  30. compare Directorio General de la Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista (2015), available here
  31. see Aurelio Barrau thread, [in:] Hispanismo service, available here
  32. Directorio General de la Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista (2015), available here
  33. a monograph on Seville Carlism until the early 20th century does not mention any Barrau (except Leoncio as author on booklet on San Agustin convent), Caín Somé Laserna, El tradicionalismo en Sevilla: crisis y renacimiento

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