Gualterio Enrique Ahrens

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Gualterio Enrique Ahrens (born December 27, 1906 in Buenos Aires , † September 27, 1981 ibid) was an Argentine brigadier general and ambassador .

Life

Gualterio Enrique Ahrens was the son of Paula Pluck and Heinrich Ahrens. He married Carolina Elsa Copello in 1930, their children were Mario and Carola A. de Solanas. He attended the German elementary and high school in Belgrano and took individual subjects at the Belgrano German School. He attended the Argentine Military Academy and became a lieutenant in the artillery in 1927; In 1936 he graduated from the artillery school with a degree in military affairs and was promoted to officer of the artillery.

In 1948 Gualterio Ahrens worked in the Argentine office for emigration issues , Marktgasse 49 in Bern, under Legation Councilor Enrique Moss. In 1949 he was also on a technical mission in France. He then became vice director and professor at the Technical College for Military Affairs, in 1951 he was promoted to colonel and director of the artillery school. He was then temporarily retired and worked in private industry until Juan Perón was overthrown in 1955. In 1958 he was Brigadier General Military Attaché in London under Alberto María Candioti.

From 1959 until the fall of Arturo Frondizi in 1962 he was ambassador in Bonn . In 1966 he was elected director at Rheinstahl Hanomag Cura SA (Argentina) . The company manufactured tractors in Bell Ville .

Publications

  • Reflections on the social and political development of Argentina in the 19th and 20th centuries, Argentine Embassy, ​​1961 - 28 pp.

literature

  • Lucio Ricardo Pérez Calvo: Genealogías argentinas T. 2, LR Pérez Calvo, Buenos Aires, 2002, p. 273.

Individual evidence

  1. Ruth Stanley, Armament Modernization through Scientific Migration ?: German armaments specialists in Argentina and Brazil 1947–1963 , 1999 - 360 p., P. 80
  2. ... el general Gualterio E. Ahrens, embajador argentino en Alemania occidental, ha presentado hoy su dimisión a causa de la deposición del presidente Arturo Frondizi . Ahrens, que es de ascendencia alemana, for designado por Frondizi para el citado puesto en 1959. see: La Vanguardia , 1962/04/03, [1]
  3. Análisis : Issues 294-302, 1966, p. 80
predecessor Office successor
Raúl de Labougle Carranza Argentine ambassador in Bonn from
1959 to 1962
Luis Herman Irigoyen