Enrique Tierno Galván

Enrique Tierno Galván (Madrid, 8 February 1918 – Madrid, 19 January 1986) was a Spanish politician, professor, lawyer and essayist, best known for being the Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986, at the beginning of the new period of Spanish democracy. His time as Mayor of Madrid was marked by the development of Madrid both administratively and socially, and the cultural movement known as the Movida madrileña.[1][2]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Tierno and the second or maternal family name is Galván.

Enrique Tierno Galván
Mayor of Madrid
In office 15 May 1979 – 19 January 1986
Preceded by	Luis María Huete
Succeeded by	Juan Barranco Gallardo
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 15 June 1977 – 31 August 1982
Constituency	Madrid
Personal details
Born	Enrique Tierno Galván (1918-02-08)8 February 1918 Madrid, Spain
Died	19 January 1986(1986-01-19) (aged 67) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	PSOE
Profession	Lawyer
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Career

Early career

He fought in the Spanish Civil War in the Republican faction. After the war ended, he continued his studies and got a Ph.D. in Law and another in Philosophy. He held a Chair of Professor at the University of Murcia from 1948 to 1953, and at the University of Salamanca from 1953 until 1965. Afterwards, he worked as a lawyer and occasional professor at Princeton University, Bryn Mawr College and the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan.[1]

Writer

As a writer, he authored over 30 books, and translated important works such as the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

In 1978 he was chosen to write the preamble to the Spanish Constitution.

Politician

Statue of Tierno Galván in Madrid, in the park named after him

He founded the Popular Socialist Party (social democrats) in 1968 and was its President until 1978, when it merged with the larger Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. In 1979 and 1982 he was one of the members of that party elected to the Congress of Deputies.[3]

He was elected Mayor of Madrid after the polls of 3 April 1979.[4] As a candidate from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was the first leftist Mayor of Madrid after four decades of Francoist government. Reelected in 1983, he would remain in office until his death in 1986.[1]

During his time as Mayor of Madrid, in addition to his support of the cultural changes of the Movida Madrileña, he promoted or finished many improvements to the city such as the traffic tunnels by the Atocha railway station, the development of incentives to use buses and other mass transports, the cleaning of the Manzanares river, the main market of the city (Mercamadrid) or the reorganization of the Districts of Madrid.[5]

Death

He died in Madrid on 19 January 1986 from a cardiac arrest aged 67.[6] He was interred at cementerio de la Almudena two days later.[7]

References

1. Obituary in The New York Times.
2. Exposition of Enrique Tierno Galván bibliography at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (in spanish).
3. "Tierno Galván, Enrique". Congress of Deputies (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
4. "Tierno, virtual alcalde de Madrid". ABC. Madrid: Vocento. 4 April 1979. p. 1. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
5. López, Víctor (20 January 2011). "La huella de Tierno en las calles de Madrid". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
6. "Muere el alcalde de Madrid, Enrique Tierno Galván". Antena 3 (in Spanish). Madrid: Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
7. "El fervor popular en torno a la tumba de Tierno comenzó inmediatamente después del entierro, a las 16.45". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. 22 January 1986. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

• Special TV program by RTVE in 1986 about his life. (in Spanish)

External links

• Enrique Tierno Galván at Find a Grave

Political offices
Preceded by Luis María Huete	Mayor of Madrid 1979-1986	Succeeded by Juan Barranco Gallardo
Party political offices
Preceded by Party created	President of the Popular Socialist Party 1968-1978	Succeeded by Party dissolved