Orgaz was promoted to the position of Chief of the Defence High Command , i.e., chief of staff of the Spanish Armed Forces, immediately after World War II as Franco made a number of appointments designed to bring potential enemies back into the fold. However he managed less than a year in the position before his death in early 1946. His grandson, Luis Javier Benavides, became a labor lawyer and member of the illegal Communist Party of Spain, and was one of the victims of the 1977 Atocha massacre.