[1] Melchor Rodríguez García, was born on 30 May 1893, in the Triana neighborhood of Seville, Spain.

[2] After his bullfighting career, Rodríguez moved to Madrid in 1921, where he began to work as a sheet metal worker.

He began to be attracted to the Labor Movement and joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).

Among the prisoners Rodríguez saved were notable football player Ricardo Zamora and political leaders of the Falange Española, such as Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Ramón Serrano Súñer, Valentín Galarza Morante, and Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta.

During his term in office, Melchor Rodríguez García revealed that José Cazorla Maure, a counsellor of state security of the Council of Defence of Madrid, had organized a net of private, illegal prisons that the Communist Party of Spain ran.

At this second Council of War, General Agustín Muñoz Grandes, whom Rodríguez had saved, with other military prisoners, during the war spoke in favor of Rodríguez and possibly saved his life.

At the funeral, hundreds of people gathered, including figures from the dictatorship and fellow anarchists.

For the only time during Francisco Franco's regime, burial included an anarchist flag.