Toribio Martínez Cabrera (13 April 1874 – 23 June 1939) was a Spanish soldier who fought in his youth against the rebels in Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898).

Toribio Martínez Cabrera was born in Andiñuela in the municipality of Santa Colomba de Somoza, León, on 13 April 1874.

He participated in several battles in the Cuban War of Independence, including that of Asiento el Viejo and Santa Rita on 31 May 1897, for which he was awarded the Medal of Military Merit.

[1] After completing his studies in 1903 Martínez Cabrera was promoted to captain and assigned to the military mapping commission in Cáceres, where he remained until 1906, when he became a professor at the Superior School of War.

[2] When the Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 Martínez Cabrera was Military Governor of the Cartagena naval base.

[2] Prime Minister Francisco Largo Caballero appointed him to this post in place of the communist Manuel Estrada Manchón.

[7] After the fall of Gijón on 21 October 1937, the last stronghold in the north, Martínez Cabrera was arrested and charged with treason by the Republican authorities, as were Generals José Asensio Torrado and Fernando Martínez-Monje.

[8] Martínez Cabrera was appointed military governor of Madrid in December 1938 by the government of Juan Negrín in place of the retired General Manuel Cardenal Dominicis.

[9] In March 1939 he backed the coup of Colonel Segismundo Casado, who appointed him undersecretary in the National Defense Council (Consejo Nacional de Defensa).