Santiago Durruti

Santiago Durruti Malgor was a Spanish trade unionist and politician. Born in León to a Basque father and Asturian mother, Durruti married Anastasia Dumange, with whom he had eight children. Together with his brother Ignacio, Durruti led the city's first trade union, acting as a union representative during a general strike in the city's tanning industry. After nine months, the strike was suppressed and his family subsequently faced severe economic hardships. His son Buenaventura Durruti also became a trade union activist, and later a militant anarchist. During the 1920s, Durruti was nearly arrested after his son was suspected of assassinating a local official. Durruti himself became a city councilor during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and died after the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. His funeral was organised by the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) trade unions.