page_title: Miguel Martínez de Pinillos Sáenz
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Miguel Martínez de Pinillos Sáenz / Politics
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Der Ex-Diktator Spaniens, Primo de Rivera gestorben&#160;! Aufnahmen aus der Glanzzeit seiner Diktatur. Porträt des spanischen Ex-Diktator Primo de Revera. Information added by Wikimedia users.Español: Retrato de Miguel Primo de Rivera a finales de 1921, entonces senador, cuando es nombrado Gabriel de Orozco nuevo capitán general de la Región Militar de Madrid.[1]
context_page_description: Miguel Martínez de Pinillos Sáenz was a Spanish entrepreneur. He is known mostly as a ship-owner, who operated a Cádiz-based fleet of merchant vessels on Mediterranean and Atlantic routes. He is recognized also as a locally known conservative politician, briefly serving in the Cortes as a Carlist deputy.
context_section_description: Political preferences of Pinillos’ ancestors are unclear; it is merely known that he was raised in a pious Catholic ambience. One authors claims he embraced an Integrist outlook, information not confirmed in the Integrist press of the era. Though his cousin Sebastian Martínez de Pinillos was in 1918 elected to Cortes from Cádiz on the conservative ticket, none of the sources consulted refers to Miguel’s political activity during the Restauración period. Apart from high-life engagements, his only non-commercial public endeavors were related to charity.
  Martínez de Pinillos was first noted in politics when engaged in local incarnations of the primoderiverista regime. He became member of Somatén and joined Unión Patriotica, in the mid-1920s growing to vice-president of its provincial Cádiz branch. In April 1925 he was offered seat in the Diputación Provincial, though it is not clear how long he performed the role. In the late 1920s he was active in Patronal del Comercio, Industria y Navegación, an attempt to form a domesticated labor organization. During Dictablanda he seemed leaning towards a cautious "law and order" stance, as late as in February 1931 presiding over initiatives in support of the army and Guardia Civil.
  During early months of the Republic Pinillos was active in a local, vaguely conservative Acción Ciudadana, in January 1932 emerging as its president. The formation was leaning towards Alfonsist monarchism; it hosted one of the most prestigious Acción Nacional politicians, Antonio Goicoechea. In early 1933 Martínez de Pinillos was still reported vice-president, but he left before AC got incorporated into CEDA. Having neared the Carlists, during the 1933 electoral campaign he already represented their Comunión Tradicionalista on a coalition Frente de Derechas list. Elected, he joint the Carlist minority. Though he moved from Cádiz to Madrid and set up his headquarters in hotel Ritz, Martínez de Pinillos remained a passive parliamentarian. He joined Comisión de Marina but did not speak a single time during the plenary chamber sessions, which did not spare him mockery in Republican press.
  Pinillos remained moderately active in Carlist realm; he is scarcely mentioned as taking part in party propaganda gatherings or as active in the party structures; his most significant appointment was to Comisión de Hacienda of the Traditionalist executive. His most notable high-profile event was a massively attended 1934 feast of Andalusian Carlists on the estate of Quintillo. Featured among most prominent party leaders he seemed overwhelmed, as reflected in one of his few literary attempts. Taking advantage of his wealth, he was rather listed among those who financially supported Carlist sport ventures, Traditionalist labor organizations and the party press. Martínez de Pinillos is not noted as engaged in the 1936 electoral campaign; according to one source, following outbreak of the Civil War he withdrew from active politics.
caption: Miguel Primo de Rivera
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