36th Division (Spain)

36th Division
36.ª División
Active	May 1937–March 1939
Country	Spain
Allegiance	Republican faction
Branch	Spanish Republican Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	Spanish Civil War: Battle of Merida pocket
Commanders
Notable commanders	José Neira Jarabo

The 36th Division was a military formation belonging to the Spanish Republican Army that fought during the Spanish Civil War. It was deployed on the Extremadura front during the entire war.

History

The 36th Division was created in May 1937, ^[1] on the Extremadura front. It was assigned to the VII Army Corps, which was located in front of the Tagus River. ^[2] The division was made up of the 47th, 62nd, 104th and 113th mixed brigades, covering the front from the Algodor River to Castilblanco. ^[3] During the following months, it did not intervene in relevant operations. At the beginning of 1938, it gave up two of its brigades - the 62nd and 104th - which formed the Extremadura Division  [ es ]. ^[4]

In July 1938, it took part in the fighting of the Battle of Merida pocket, during which it suffered considerable losses. On 11 August, command was assumed by the militia major José Neira Jarabo, a former electrician of the CNT-FAI, who joined the Division from the dissolved 59th Mixed Brigade. ^[1] At this time the 36th Division, made up of the 47th, 113th and 148th mixed brigades, was integrated into the VI Army Corps. ^[5]

At the end of the war, Neira was captured and imprisoned by the Nationalists, who shot him in Madrid's Eastern Cemetery on 26 September 1941. ^[6]

Command

Commanders

• Antonio Bertomeu Bisquert; ^[7]
• Francisco Gómez Palacios; ^[8]
• José Neira Jarabo; ^[9]

Commissars

• Francisco Gil Vallejo, of the PCE; ^[10]
• Dionisio Martín Martínez, of the PCE; ^[11]
• Pedro Yáñez Jiménez, of the PSOE; ^[1]

Order of battle

Date	Attached Army Corps	Integrated mixed brigades	Battlefront
May 1937	VII Army Corps	46th, 47th, 104th and 113th	Estremadura
December 1937	VII Army Corps	47th, 62nd, 104th and 113th	Estremadura
March 1938	VII Army Corps	47th, 62nd and 113th	Estremadura
30 April 1938	VII Army Corps	21st, 47th and 113th	Estremadura
July 1938	VII Army Corps	47th, 113th and 114th	Estremadura
August 1938	VI Army Corps	47th, 113th and 148th	Estremadura
December 1938	VI Army Corps	47th and 113th	Estremadura

References

1. Engel 1999, p. 215.
2. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 230.
3. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 85.
4. Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 616.
5. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 249.
6. Núñez & Rojas 1997, p. 215.
7. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 98.
8. Martínez Bande 1981, p. 175.
9. Engel 1999, p. 215; Martínez Bande 1981, p. 296.
10. Álvarez 1989, p. 180.
11. Álvarez 1989, p. 188.

Bibliography

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• Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Madrid: Almena. ISBN   84-922644-7-0.
• Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1975). La llegada al mar (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial San Martín.
• Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1981). La batalla de Pozoblanco y el cierre de la bolsa de Mérida (in Spanish). Madrid: San Martín.
• Moreno Gómez, Francisco (1985). La Guerra civil en Córdoba (1936-1939) (in Spanish). Córdoba: Alpuerto.
• Núñez, Mirta; Rojas, Antonio (1997). Consejo de guerra: los fusilamientos en el Madrid de la posguerra (1939-1945) (in Spanish). Madrid: Compañía Literaria.