Germinal Esgleas Jaume was the pseudonym of Josep Esgleas i Jaume (Malgrat de Mar, 1903[1] - Tolosa, 1981) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and militant of the FAI.

In May 1945, he became General Secretary of the CNT during his exile in Paris after facing off with the previous General Secretary, Juan Manuel Molina Mateo.

In those years a split took place between the orthodox faction and the possibilist faction, the latter of which was in favor of collaboration with the Spanish Republican government in exile.

His appointment was answered by Cipriano Mera in 1964, who accused him, among other things, of appropriation of the running of the organization.

[2] His opinion was dominant within the CNT during the 1960s, which is why many of his detractors have accused him of immobility.