José Ramón Ónega

Xosé Ramón Ónega López, known in Spanish as José Ramón Ónega López (8 March 1939 – 7 February 2021), was a Spanish journalist and politician.

In this Galician name, the first surname is Ónega and the second is López.

Biography

Ónega was born in Mosteiro, in Galicia, on 8 March 1939. He made his debut in journalism with infantile collaborations with El Progreso, as correspondent in Mosteiro. He graduated in law from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1962, and while studying he collaborated as head of the information department of the Spanish University Union, with the newspaper La Noche.[1]

At that time he began his political career, which he continued as a technician in the state administration in the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. He moved to Madrid, where he would reside for most of his professional career, and also studied as a lawyer in that city. In the last years of Franco's dictatorship he taught an introductory course on Public and Private Law at the Complutense University of Madrid between 1974 and 1976.

Onega began to have a public presence when during the transition period he occupied positions of political relevance. Under the governments of Adolfo Suárez and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo he was Deputy Director General of Internal Policy between 1977 and 1978,[2] and Deputy Director General of the Technical Office of the Undersecretary uf Public Order between 1978 and 1979.[3] He was also Civil Governor of the province of Zamora between 1979[4] and 1982,[5] and of Bizkaia between 1982[6] and 1984.

With the arrival to power of the PSOE in 1982, he remained linked to the Ministry of the Interior as Inspector General of Services between 1984[7] and 1993.[8] In 1996, the newly government of José María Aznar appointed him Director General of Internal Policy,[9] being Minister Jaime Mayor Oreja, office he held until 2004.[10]

He was also president of the National Commission against Sports Violence and president of the Interministerial Commission for Asylum and Refuge. He was director of the Casa de Galicia in Madrid from 2009 until the date of his death in 2021.[11]

Work

In addition to his political work, he wrote several books on history and ethnography, as well as novels and poetry:[12]

History
  • Los judíos en el reino de Galicia (1981)
  • Odorio el Africano. Colonización de Galicia en el s.VIII (1988)
  • Pasado, presente e futuro de A Pontenova (1988)
  • Perfil histórico, artístico y paisajístico del Concello de Pol, Lugo (1988)
  • José Mª Díaz Sanjurjo. Un gallego en Vietnam (1991)

Novels
  • El enigma de Jose An (1991)
  • El promonitorio de los claveles marinos (1999)

Poetry
  • Sol de poniente (2004)

Personal life and death

He was brother of journalist Fernando Ónega and uncle of Sonsoles Ónega. He married María Esther Coladas-Guzmán in 1966, with whom he had three children.[13]

Ónega died in Madrid on 7 February 2021 from COVID-19 at the age of 81, a few weeks after the death of his son "Monchito" at the age of 52.[14]

References
  1. "Perfil. Ónega, una vida entre el periodismo y la política". El Progreso (in Spanish). 7 February 2021.
  2. "ORDEN de 27 de junio de 1977 por la que se nombra Subdirector general de Política Interior a don José Ramón Onega López" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 27 June 1977.
  3. "ORDEN de 7 de septiembre de 1978 por la que se nombra a don José Ramón Ónega López, Jefe del Gabinete Técnico de la Subsecretaria de Orden Público" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 7 September 1978.
  4. "REAL DECRETO 1441/1979, de 18 de junio, por el que se nombra Gobernador civil de la provincia de Zamora a don José Ramón Ónega López" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 16 June 1979.
  5. "REAL DECRETO 138/1982, de 1 de febrero, por el que se dispone cese como Gobernador civil de la provincia de Zamora dan José Ramón Onega López" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 1 February 1982.
  6. "REAL DECRETO 141/1982, de 1 de febrero, por el que se nombra Gobernador civil de la provincia de Vizcaya a don José Ramón Ónega López" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 1 February 1982.
  7. "RDEN de 18 de febrero de 1984 por lo que se nombra Inspector general de Servicios del Ministerio del Interior a don José Ramón Onega López" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 18 February 1984.
  8. "ORDEN de 14 de septiembre de 1993 por la que se dispone el cese de don José Ramón Onega López como Inspector General de servicios del Ministerio del Interior" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 14 September 1993.
  9. "Real Decreto 792/1996, de 7 de mayo, por el que se nombra Director general de Política Interior a don José Ramón Onega López" (PDF) (in Spanish). 7 May 1996.
  10. "Real Decreto 1083/2004, de 7 de mayo, por el que se dispone el cese de don José Ramón Onega López como Director General de Política Interior" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 7 May 2004.
  11. "Muere por covid José Ramón Ónega, el embajador de Galicia en Madrid". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 7 February 2021.
  12. "9 títulos para "Onega Lopez Jose Ramon"". Todos tus libros (in Spanish).
  13. "Ónega, gobernador de Vizcaya en los años del plomo". Bitácora de Cora (in Spanish).
  14. "Fallece por COVID José Ramón Ónega, tras una apasionante vida dedicada a la función pública". El Correo Gallego (in Spanish). 7 February 2021.
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