Jesús Hernández Tomás

Jesús Hernández Tomás
Minister of Education and Fine Arts
In office
4 September 1936 – 17 May 1937
Preceded byFrancisco Barnés Salinas
Succeeded bySegundo Blanco
Minister of Education and Health
In office
17 May 1937 – 5 April 1938
Preceded byFederica Montseny (Health)
Succeeded bySegundo Blanco
Personal details
Born1907 (1907)
Died11 January 1971(1971-01-11) (aged 63–64)
OccupationPolitician
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Jesús Hernández Tomás (1907 – 11 January 1971) was a Spanish communist leader. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) he was Minister of Education and Fine Arts, then Minister of Education and Health. After the war he went into exile in Oran, Moscow and then Mexico. He was expelled from the party in 1944 for disloyalty to the leadership, and purged from the official history of the party after writing a book in 1953 critical of the Stalinist role in the Civil War.