Ricardo de Gondra Lazurtegui (12 March 1885 – 7 April 1951) was a Spanish mining engineer who is best known for being the third president of Atlético Madrid between 1907 and 1909.
[5] However, this meeting was suspended by the organizer Carlos Padrós, claiming that it would be impossible to reach an agreement with the delegates of the different clubs.
Between March and November 1903, Atlético did not play a single football match, living in the shadow of Madrid FC, which accused President Ricardo de Gondra opted to depend excessively on Athletic Bilbao.
On 8 August 1931, de Gondra was appointed alongside Evencio Cortina as one of two new councilors to the council of the Spanish multinational construction and civil engineering company, OHL, which had suffered several losses due to casualties, such as the death due to natural causes of Francisco de Ussía y Cubas, a founding partner of the company, on 8 July 1931, and later the murder of Marcelino Oreja Elósegui, secretary of the Board of Directors, in 1934.
[8] In the last reunion of the Board of Directors of OHL before the start of the Spanish Civil War, which was held on 25 April 1936, de Gondra was appointed as the vice president of the company at the proposal of José de Aresti, filling the position vacant due to the death of Evencio Cortina.
[8] During the Civil War, Gondra reported that the Management Committee had met periodically and just to summarize the agreements made in the minutes drawn up for this purpose.