Andres de Irujo Ollo (1907 - 1993) was the son of lawyer
Daniel Irujo y Urra, pioneer of Basque nationalism in Navarre and defender of
Sabino Arana and the brother of Manuel de Irujo y Pello Irujo .
He joined the Basque Nationalist Party at age 16 and studied
Law at Madrid.
Andres de Irujo Ollo was one of the signatories of the
"Republican Manifesto" of the Ateneo
de Madrid which was headed by Manuel Azana.
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he moved to San
Sebastián and was named commissioner of the Interior on the Board of Defense
and participated in reorganizing the Brigade of Public Order where he was
responsible for guarding prisons of Ondarreta and Kursaal, avoiding arbitrary
executions. He supervised the orderly evacuation of San Sebastian before the
Nationalist columns entered the city.
In 1937 when his brother Manuel was Minister of Justice, he
was secretary of the ministry.
Initially he went into exile in France and became there the
Basque Government representative. After the German occupation of France, he
left for Argentina .
He participated in the founding of the American Institute of
Basque Studies and Eusko Kultur Etxea - House of Basque Culture.
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