Federico Gómez de Salazar y Nieto (Toledo, 29 September 1912 – Madrid, 24 January 2006) was a Spanish military officer who fought for the Nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War. He was Governor-General of Spanish Sahara when Morocco organized the Green March in 1975, and chaired the which tried the Spanish Armed Forces personnel who participated in the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt. Biography Gómez de Salazar entered the General Military Academy of Zaragoza in 1929, where he was trained by General Francisco Franco, obtaining the rank of ensign in 1932 and that of lieutenant in 1933. He was promoted to captain on March 24, 1937, being assigned to the Group "Ceuta" Nº 3 of the Regulares. He participated in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Military Medal was granted to him for conduct displayed in the Regulares. He also fought on the Eastern Front of World War II, in the ranks of the Blue Division (, ), or the 250th Infantry Division of the German Wehrmacht; he was assigned to the 262nd Regiment. In 1944 he was promoted to the rank of commander, obtaining the diploma of General Staff of the Army in 1946, and later, the diploma of General Staff of the Navy. In 1957 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1965 to colonel. He was promoted to general in 1970, major general in September 1973 and to lieutenant general in May 1976. Gómez de Salazar was named Governor-General of Spanish Sahara in June 1974. He achieved great public notoriety when, on 6 November 1975, he faced the Green March; the event, organized by King Hassan II of Morocco, saw approximately 350,000 unarmed Moroccan civilians invading the territory. There he would have to organize a preventive defense, estimating that in case of violence there would be about 30,000 casualties, taking responsibility after an emergency evacuation and demilitarization operation after the signing of the Madrid Accords, process that would conclude in January 1976. In 1976, back in Spain and being assigned to the General Staff, Gómez de Salazar presided over the Council of War which tried the defendants belonging to the clandestine Military Democratic Union (Unión Militar Democrática, UMD), held at Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid) from 8 March. In January 1977 he was appointed Captain General of the (Madrid), a position in which he remained until September 1978. On 23 September 1981 he joined the