Juan Hernández Saravia (Ledesma, Spain, 1880- Mexico, 1974) was a Spanish military officer prominent in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

He was born into a bourgeois family, and continued a family tradition by enrolling in the artillery school in 1897. He opposed the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. He became a friend of Manuel Azaña, leading to his 1931 appointment as Minister of the War.

During the Spanish Civil War, he was Republican commander at the Battle of Teruel. Later, he commanded at the Battle of the Ebro but was dismissed at the very end of the war for "defeatism".

After the Republican defeat he lived in exile in France and later in Mexico, until his death.^[1]

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