Lluis Companys

Lluís Companys 1883-1940 - Catalan politician, leader of the Esquerra Party (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya). He served as Minister of the Navy of the Spanish Republic, and President of Catalan Generalitat in 1933.

Exiled to France in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War, he was returned by German agents to Francoist Spain, and shot at Montjuïc Castle (Barcelona) in 1940.