Feliciano Benito

Feliciano Benito Anaya (c. 1896–1940) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist.

Biography Born around 1896 in the Segovian town of Tabladillo, some time later he moved to Madrid, where he worked as a carpenter. At an early age he joined the National Confederation of Labor (, CNT). Known as «Father Benito», he was part of the «Los Libertos» group of the Ateneo de Divulgación Social.

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the confederal militias. He came to command a column that received his name and that operated on the Guadalajara-Sigüenza front. In the fall of 1936 he participated in the Battle of Sigüenza, although its forces were unable to defend the city from the nationalist assault. He also became a military commander of Tarancón. Later he became part of the political commissariat of the People's Army of the Republic. He came to serve as political commissar of the IV Army Corps, on the Guadalajara front. In the last days of the war he was appointed as commissar of the Central Army.

Captured by the nationalists, he was shot on 26 October 1940 in the Guadalajara cemetery.