Felipe Alfau Mendoza (
c. 1845/1848 – 1937) was a Spanish military officer. He served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia.
Biography
Born in
Santo Domingo,[1][note 1] son to the Dominican
trinitario Felipe Alfau y Bustamante and Rosa Josefa Mendoza Pineda.[2] Leader of the first brigade of Jägers of Melilla, he was promoted to
division general in 1910.[3]
After the 1912
Treaty of Fes and the entry in
Tétouan of the Spanish forces commanded by Alfau on 19 February 1913,[4] he became the first High Commissioner of the newly created
Spanish protectorate in Morocco on 5 April 1913.[5] He left the post on 15 August 1913, when he was replaced by
José Marina Vega.[5]