150th Mixed Brigade

December 2025 150th Mixed Brigade 150.ª Brigada Mixta June 1937 March 1939 Spanish Republic Spain Spanish Republic Republican faction 18px Spanish Republican Army Infantry Brigade Spanish Civil War Siege of Madrid The 150th Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army created during the Spanish Civil War. Located in front of Madrid, it did not play a relevant role throughout the war. History The unit was created on 11 June 1937 in Madrid with battalions from the 7th, 43rd, 67th and 75th mixed brigades, initially receiving reinforcements from Mixed Brigade «A». It received its definitive numbering after the Battle of Brunete, Engel 1999 128 which had previously been used by an International Brigade. The initial commander of the brigade was the infantry commander Ángel Roig Jorquera, who shortly after was replaced by the militia major Eduardo Zamora Conde. The head of the General Staff fell to the militia captain Miguel Soto Añibarro, while Francisco Ortuño was the political commissioner. During the war the brigade was assigned to the 13th and 18th divisions, Engel 1999 204, 207 remaining situated on the quiet front of Madrid. At the beginning of February 1939 it was garrisoning the road from Pozuelo to Torres and the road from Campo Real to Torres, in the Corpa sector, located in front of the nationalist 13th Division. Engel 1999 128 Command Commanders Infantry Commander Ángel Roig Jorquera; Militia major Eduardo Zamora Conde; Militia major Vicente Ibars Ronda; Commissars Óscar Sánchez Gil, of the PS/CNT; Álvarez 1989 182 References Bibliography Santiago Álvarez Los comisarios políticos en el Ejército Popular de la República Ediciós do Castro 1989 es Carlos Engel Historia de las brigadas mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República Almena Ediciones 1999 es expanded Category:Military units and formations established in 1937 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1939 Category:Mixed Brigades (Spain) Category:Military units and formations of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) Category:Military history of Spain Category:Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic