Armando Muñoz Calero

Armando Muñoz Calero y López was a Spanish physician and Falangist politician, born at Águilas in the province of Murcia in February 1908 and died in Madrid in November 1978. Trained as a physician, he worked for a time in Lorca and became the national inspector of health for the Falange. He joined the Blue Division that fought alongside Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front in the Second World War and served as a front-line surgeon in its medical corps. After the war he chaired the Organización Médica Colegial, the Spanish medical association, in 1945 and 1946, and presided over the managing committee of the Provincial Deputation of Madrid from 1943 to 1946. He sat in the Francoist Cortes in several periods between 1946 and 1971, was president of the Spanish Football Federation from 1947 to 1950, and later served as a vice-president of Atlético de Madrid. His record is that of a physician whose career is bound up with a dictatorship.