Cayetano Redondo Aceña

Cayetano Redondo Aceña (7 August 188821 May 1940) was a Spanish politician, typographer, journalist and Esperantist. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served as Mayor of Madrid from November 1936 to May 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography Born on 7 August 1888 in Segovia, he moved young to Madrid with his family. He worked as typographer. He became a member of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) in 1905. In 1918, Redondo was leader of the National Federation of Juventudes Socialistas, the youth wing of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He worked for several political papers, including El Socialista.

In 1931, he was elected as Madrid municipal councillor at the , in representation of Chamberí.

A noted esperantist, he was the Spanish representative at the Summer School organised by the Austrian Socialist Esperantist League in 1927, and he also delivered the opening speech of the 9th Spanish Congress of Esperanto in 1932. Redondo was elected his replacement on 8 November,

After Madrid fell, Redondo was captured by Francoist forces and executed by a firing squad at the walls of the Cementerio de la Almudena on 21 May 1940. Buried in a mass grave, his remains were later moved and buried together with those of José Gómez Osorio, the last Republican civil governor of Madrid, shot months earlier, thanks to the concern of the family of the latter. His grave is near the place chosen in memory of "The Thirteen Roses."