Manuel Andreu
Manuel Andreu | |
|---|---|
| Member of Barcelona City Council | |
| In office 1936–1939 | |
| General Secretary of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo | |
| In office November 1915 – 24 August 1916 | |
| Preceded by | Josep Negre |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Jordán |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1889 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died | 10 October 1968 (aged 79) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Nationality | Catalan |
| Political party | Acció Catalana Republicana |
| Other political affiliations | Confederación Nacional del Trabajo |
Manuel Andreu Colomer (1889–1968) was a Catalan politician and trade unionist. As leader of the Barcelona electricians' union, he was a founding member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). In 1915, he became editor of the CNT's newspaper Solidaridad Obrera and as was elected as the organisation's General Secretary. He was involved in a series of controversies during this time, due to his rejection of anarcho-syndicalism and recognition of minority nationalities in Spain, over which he was forced to resign his posts. He continued to participate in the restructuring of the CNT, successfully pushing for it to be organised along the lines of industrial unionism. By the time of the Second Spanish Republic, he had left the syndicalist movement and become a Catalan nationalist, serving in the Barcelona City Council as a member of Acció Catalana Republicana.