Eduardo Augusto Marques

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Eduardo Augusto Marques

Eduardo Augusto Marques (born July 21, 1867 in Mafra , Portugal , † June 10, 1944 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a Portuguese soldier and politician.

Life

Marques was a military engineer in the Portuguese army. In 1908 he was to take over the post of governor of Portuguese Timor as captain . Marques was supposed to replace Colonel José Celestino da Silva , a friend of King Carlos I , who had just been assassinated. It was feared that Silva would not voluntarily vacate his post, which is why Marques was accompanied by the Director General for Overseas, Captain Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro , who should arrest Silva in an emergency. For health reasons, however, he had meanwhile appointed Captain Jaime Viera da Rocha as acting governor and had traveled to Australia with his wife . When Silva returned to Dili , he even offered to help, since Castro's father, General Joaquim Pimenta de Castro, was a friend of Silva. During his service, Marques set up the first military post on the island of Atauro and had an experimental farm built in Liquiçá . He remained Governor of Portuguese Timor until 1909 and was then Governor of Macau from September 22, 1909 to December 17, 1910 .

Marques achieved the rank of general. From July 8, 1929 to January 31, 1931, he succeeded António de Oliveira Salazar in the office of Minister for the Colonies in the Ditadura Nacional ( National Dictatorship ) and then President of the Câmara Corporativa , one of the two chambers of parliament, in the Estado Novo . In 1933 he was Commander in Chief of the Army ( Chefe do Estado-Maior do Exército ).

Marques wrote several works on the Portuguese colonies.

Awards

Marques received several awards: the Grand Cross of the Order of Christ , the Grand Cross of the Order of Knights of Avis and the Grand Cross of the Order of Império Colonial .

During the time of the Estado Novo, the town of Bazartete was renamed Vila Eduardo Marques after the former governor .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical examination of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912 . Abera, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-931567-08-7 , ( Abera Network Asia-Pacific 4), (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1994).
  2. ↑ Chronologie de l'histoire du Timor (1512-1945) suivie des événements récents (1975-1999) (French; PDF; 887 kB)
  3. ↑ José Adelino Maltez
  4. ↑ a b Acordo Missionário entre a Santa Sé ea Republica Portuguesa (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Portal do Estado-Maior do Exército: Antigos Chefes do Estado-Maior do Exército ( Memento of February 19, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  6. ^ Memoria africa: List of works
  7. ^ Bazartete, East Timor Page
predecessor Office successor
Jaime Viera da Rocha Governor of Portuguese Timor
1908–1909 		Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro
personal data
SURNAME Marques, Eduardo Augusto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marqués, Eduardo Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soldier, colonial administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Mafra
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1944
Place of death Lisbon