Germán Ignacio Riesco

Politician, Deceased Person

1888 – 1958

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Who was Germán Ignacio Riesco?

Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, who served several times as minister between 1919 and 1950. He was of Basque descent and a member of the influential Errázuriz family.

He was born in Santiago in 1888, the son of President Germán Riesco and of First Lady María Errázuriz Echaurren. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile on April 21, 1910. He was Minister of War and Navy of President Juan Luis Sanfuentes between 1919 and 1920; and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1948 and 1950, under President Gabriel González Videla. He married Rosa Barceló Pinto but they had no children.

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Born
1888
Profession
Lived in
  • Santiago Province
Died
Nov 11, 1958

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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