Vicenç Albert Ballester i Camps (September 18, 1872 in Barcelona – August 15, 1938 in El Masnou) was a Spanish politician, Catalan nationalist, considered by some to be the designer and promoter of the "estelada", Catalonia's independence flag.
[3] In 1901 he became a member of the Foment Autonomista Català and head of La Reixa [ca], and as such organised the acts of the September 11, 1908 (Catalonia's National Day) which resulted in a prison sentence.
[5] Ballester was a very active Catalan activist and in 1923 he was one of the participants (and later chronicler) of the September 11th demonstration that year, which was violently put down with sabre charges, just one day before the coup d'état of general Primo of Rivera.
[6] Ballester backed the foreign campaign of Francesc Macià's Catalan State although he was critical with the planned invasion from Prats de Molló.
Ballester collaborated with numerous Catalan magazines in the Americas, including Ressorgiment [ca] (Revival) in Buenos Aires, and La Nova Catalunya (New Catalonia) in Havana, Cuba.