Eduardo Lonardi

Eduardo Lonardi

Eduardo Lonardi (born September 15, 1896 in the province of Entre Ríos , † March 22, 1956 in Buenos Aires ) was an independent Argentine politician and military . He was de facto President of Argentina from September 23 to November 13, 1955.

Career

In 1936 the military attaché in Santiago de Chile , Juan Perón , was offered the mobilization plan for northern Chile. Peron was transferred to Rome as a military attaché . He was succeeded by Eduardo Lonardi. This was accused of espionage . The Argentine ambassador to Santiago de Chile, Frederico Máximo Quintana, remained inactive. Arturo Alessandri gave Eduardo Lonardi 24 hours to leave Chile and he became a persona non grata in Chile . After an attempted coup in 1951, Brigadier General Lonardi was demoted and retired . Lonardi developed into a follower of Monseñor Gustavo Juan Franceschi (July 28, 1881 - July 11, 1957), an Orthodox Catholic, and maintained relationships with the Partido Demócrata Cristiano . In his view, Argentina was in the hands of liberals, Freemasons and Marxists.

From 1949 to 1968, the Argentine Artillery School was in Córdoba . On September 15, 1955, Lonardi came to the artillery school by bus from Buenos Aires. He wore a uniform for the average of his service hours. Other conspirators gathered around him, including his son Luis Ernesto Lonardi. At the guard of the artillery school he presented an order from Colonel Ramón Eduardo Molina asking for a weapon. He was given a Colt M1911 . The group of conspirators went to the apartment of the site commander Juan Bautista Turconi. Turconi opened the door and led Lonardi into his apartment. Lonardi fired a shot and injured Turconi's ear . As a result, Lonardi was politely granted precedence to the office of president , which he actually held from September 23 to November 13, 1955. After his fall, he became a military attaché in Washington, DC. He returned to Buenos Aires shortly afterwards, where he died of cancer .

Web links

• Eduardo Lonardi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carlos Castro Sauritain: Las relaciones Vecinales de Chile y la guerra del Atlántico Sur . 2006, p. 69
2. ↑ Uki Goñi : Perón y los alemanes: la verdad sobre el espionaje nazi y los fugitivos del Reich . Editorial Sudamericana. 1999, p. 20
3. ^ Gustavo Juan Franceschi
4. ↑ La Revolución Libertadora on Argentinahistorica.com.ar

predecessor	Office	successor
Juan Perón	President of Argentina September 23 to November 13, 1955	Pedro Eugenio Aramburu