Pilar Careaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pilar Careaga

first female engineer from Spain and also a politician

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1993

Profession: engineer, politician

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Maria del Pilar Careaga Basabe (October 26, 1908 – June 10, 1993) was a Spanish politician and industrial engineer.
She was the first woman to be mayor of Bilbao.The daughter of Pedro González de Careaga y Quintana, count of Cadagua, and Concepción Basabe y Zubiría, she was born in Madrid.
She studied surveying and then completed her studies in industrial engineering at the Technical University of Madrid, becoming the first woman engineer in Spain.
She also became the first woman in Spain to drive a train.She was an unsuccessful Renovación Española candidate for Biscay province in the Spanish election of 1933.
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, she was put in Larrínaga Prison.
She was freed in a prisoner exchange in September 1936.
She then travelled to the front at Madrid where she represented the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista, looking after injured Franco supporters.
She returned to Bilbao after the war.In 1943, she married Enrique Lequerica Erquiza, an engineer who was the brother of José Félix de Lequerica y Erquiza.She was awarded the Roman Catholic Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 1958.
In 1959, she joined the Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País.
In 1964, she was named to the provincial council for the Movimiento Nacional, serving as the first woman deputy for Biscay from 1964 to 1969.She served as mayor of Bilbao from 1969 to 1977.Careaga died in Madrid at the age of 84.