Jorge Zorreguieta

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Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini (born January 28, 1928 in Buenos Aires ; † August 8, 2017 there ) was an Argentine politician and the father of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands .

Life

origin

He was born the son of the banker Juan Antonio Zorreguieta Bonorino (1899-1959) and Cesina Stefanini Borella (1901-1999), daughter of a native Genoese . His grandfather was Amadeo Zorreguieta Hernandez, Lord Mayor of Mendoza and Minister of Public Works of the Province of Mendoza , who was married to Máxima Blanca Bonorino Gonzalez (1874-1965), daughter of Máxima González y de Islas, a relative of the Argentine President Justo José de Urquiza († 1870).

Jorge Zorreguieta's great-grandfather was Mariano Zorreguieta Maurin (1830-1893), President of the Senate of the Argentine province of Salta , an illegitimate grandson of the wealthy merchant José Antonio de Sorreguieta y Oyarzabal, Gamboa y Sagastume, who lived in 1777 in northern Spain ( Basque ) Juan Antonio Tolosa Sorreguieta y Gamboa was born and came to Salta in Argentina in 1790 .

Jorge Zorreguieta was admitted to hospital for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and pneumonia and died on August 8, 2017 of complications from the lymphatic cancer .

Marriages and children

Jorge Zorreguieta was married twice and had seven children from these two marriages. The 1956 marriage with Martha López Gil (* 1935) was divorced. His best-known daughter, from his marriage to María del Carmen Cerruti Carricart (* 1944), which has existed since May 27, 1970, is Máxima (* 1971) who was married to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. Zorreguieta was not allowed to attend his daughter's wedding in 2002 because of his past linked to the Argentine military dictatorship .

He also had to stay away from the enthronement of his son-in-law on April 30, 2013.

job

Jorge Zorreguieta was State Secretary from 1976 to 1979 and then Minister for Agriculture until 1981 in the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla .

From 1984 he was president of the Centro Azucarero Argentino and from 1995 he was president of an interest group of Basques living in Argentina , the "Fundación Vasco Argentina Juan de Garay ".

Accuse

In 2001, the Dutch public prosecutor rejected a complaint against Zorreguieta because of his role in the dictatorship. The reason was a lack of competence.

On September 7, 2011, the Dutch public prosecutor's office confirmed that a lawsuit had been brought against Zorreguieta in connection with the disappearance of doctor Samuel Leonardo Slutzky . This has been made possible by changes to various laws since 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dick van Rietschoten: Jorge Zorreguieta (89), vader van Koningin Máxima, overleden . AD.nl , August 9, 2017, accessed August 9, 2017 (Dutch).
  2. ^ A b c d William Addams Reitwiesner: Ancestry of Maxima Zorreguieta (b. 1971). William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services, archived from the original on July 21, 2006 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Lymphatic cancer: Jorge Zorreguieta, father of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, has died. dpa article in the Hamburger Morgenpost , August 9, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Dutch royal family: charges against Máxima's father. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 8, 2011, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tobias Buyer: Jorge Zorreguieta: Máxima's father, the dictator's accomplice . Die Welt , April 26, 2013, accessed August 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jorge H. Zorreguieta. Centro Azucarero Argentino, archived from the original on March 14, 2013 ; Retrieved August 9, 2017 (Spanish).
  7. ^ Equipo. Fundación Vasco Argentina Juan de Garay, archived from the original on October 22, 2013 ; Retrieved August 9, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Zorreguieta, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zorreguieta Stefanini, Jorge Horacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician, father of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2017
Place of death Buenos Aires