Augusto Matte Pérez
Augusto Matte Pérez (* 1843 in Santiago de Chile ; † February 25, 1913 in Berlin ) was a Chilean politician of the Partido Liberal and diplomat , who was finance minister between 1877 and 1878 and again from 1879 to 1880 and briefly foreign minister in 1888.
Life
Family background, member of parliament and finance minister
Augusto Matte came from the influential Matte family of industrialists and politicians and was one of sixteen children of Domingo Matte Messía , who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1846 to 1849 and from 1852 to 1858, and in 1855 in Valparaíso the bank Banco Matte y Cía. opened and was also a senator between 1873 and 1882. His brothers included Eduardo Matte Pérez , who was also Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1889 and Minister of the Interior in 1892, Claudio Matte Pérez , who was Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1895, and Ricardo Matte Pérez , Minister of the Interior in 1903 and President of the Senate from 1911 to 1912.
He first studied humanities at the Instituto Nacional, Literario, Civil y Eclesiástico del Estado de Chile and then studied law at the Universidad de Chile , which he completed in 1872 with admission to the bar . After a subsequent one-year trip through Europe and America, he joined his family's bank in 1873. On October 27, 1877 he was appointed by President Aníbal Pinto Garmendia to succeed Rafael Sotomayor as Minister of Finance (Ministro de hacienda) in his cabinet and held this office until he was replaced by Julio Zegers Samaniego on August 5, 1878 Candidate of the Partido Liberal as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) and belonged to this until 1888. On April 17, 1879, he again succeeded Zegers as finance minister and held this office until his replacement by José Alfonso Cavada on June 16, 1880. His term of office was characterized by a serious economic crisis, which he countered with a decree on inconvertibility .
Senator, Foreign Minister and Envoy
During the Saltpeter War , Matte established a hospital to treat the wounded. He was 1884 president of the Society for primary education (Sociedad de instrucción Primaria) selected, and also one of the founders of the newspaper La Libertad Electoral . In 1888 he was elected a member of the Senate (Senado) and represented the interests of the Región de Valparaíso in this until 1894 . After the death of Miguel Luis Amunátegui, he temporarily held the post of Foreign Minister, Minister for Cults and Colonization (Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Culto y Colonización) in the cabinet of President José Manuel Balmaceda from February 5 to April 13, 1888 . In 1890 he went to Europe again to lead the revolution against President Balmaceda from there. After Balmaceda's suicide on September 18, 1891, he was appointed envoy to France by his successor Jorge Montt Álvarez in 1891 and held this post until 1896. At the same time, he was from 1892 to 1896 as envoy to the United Kingdom and also between 1893 and 1896 as envoy accredited in Switzerland . He was also envoy to the Holy See from 1895 to 1897 .
Matte Pérez was last envoy to the German Empire in 1905 and held this diplomatic post until his death in 1913. At the same time, between 1909 and his death in 1913, he was also accredited as envoy to the Russian Empire . He was the father of the sculptor Rebeca Matte Bello .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matte Pérez, Augusto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1913 |
| Place of death | Berlin |