Roberto Levillier

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Roberto Levillier (* 1881 in Buenos Aires ; † March 19, 1969 ibid) was an Argentine historian and diplomat .

Life

Roberto Levillier was the son of Ida Ardremont and Enrique Levillier. He was married to Jean Beatson and they had a daughter. From 1918 to 1922 he was Counselor in Madrid .

In 1920 Levillier was appointed by Hipólito Yrigoyen as a member of the Argentine delegation to the League of Nations . The commission was headed by Foreign Minister Honorio Pueyrredón , and it also included the Argentine Ambassador in Paris, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear , the Argentine Ambassador in Vienna, Fernando Pérez Sucre, and the Asesor Técnico Daniel Antokoletz. Argentina withdrew from the League of Nations on December 4, 1920. Roberto Levillier used his stay in Europe for historical studies, he proved that Amerigo Vespucci had mapped the Río de la Plata under the name Jordan . From 1922 to 1926 he was envoy extraordinary and ministerial plénipotentiaire in Lima . In 1927 he was envoy in Lisbon . From 1928 to 1934 he was envoy in Prague , and was consecutively accredited in Warsaw and Moscow . From 1935 to 1937 he was ambassador to Mexico City . After his appointment as ambassador to Mexico, he received a medal from the Spanish Republic. From 1938 to 1943 he was ambassador to Montevideo . In Buenos Aires he was the first director of the Escuela del servicio exterior argentino .

On July 12, 1938, the Argentine Foreign Minister José María Cantilo signed the Circular 11 of the year. It instructed the Argentine consuls around the world to deny entry visas to Argentina to anyone who can be assumed to have left or intend to leave their country of origin because they are viewed as undesirable or have been expelled from the country, regardless of Reason for their expulsion. The immigration regime of Argentina, which was already restrictive in the 1930s, was adapted to the assessment of the regimes in the countries of origin by means of this circular with regard to the assessment of those wishing to enter the country. A right to escape from totalitarian regimes was negated by this circular. With this circular, legal entry into Argentina was denied in many cases for Jews from the domains of the German Reich. Widespread anti-Semitism in the Argentine regime indicates that the circular's anti-Semitic effect was intentional.

Roberto Levillier and eleven other Argentine diplomats were identified on a plaque as the savior of Jews from the Shoah . The list was compiled by the Comisión de Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en Argentina (CEANA). After it became known that one of the named, Luis H. Irigoyen, an official of the embassy in Berlin , was an active collaborator of the National Socialist regime from 1937 to 1944, the plaque was removed again. In the case of Roberto Levillier, it cannot be ruled out that he helped those persecuted by the Nazi regime. However, his membership in the Comisión de Cooperación Intelectual , an organization that was founded by the German embassy in Buenos Aires in mid-1936, raises doubts as to whether he is a suitable example of the behavior of the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the immigration authorities towards persecuted Jews of the Nazi regime in a positive light.

Publications

  • Don Francisco De Toledo, supremo organizador del Perú, su vida, su obra (1515–1582) segundo Tomo sus informaciones sobre los incas (1578–1571)
  • Nueva crónica de la conquista del Tucumán, Madrid, 1926.
  • Rumbo Sur, 1937.
  • García de Castro, Lope, Despatch, Lima, Mar. 6, 1565, Gobernantes del Perú, cartas y papeles, Siglo xvi, Documentos del Archivo de Indias, Colección de Publicaciones Históricas de la Biblioteca del Congreso Argentino, ed. Roberto Levillier, 14 vols., Madrid, 1921-6. In Hemming.
  • Cupid Con Dolor Se Paga. E. Calpe 1944.
  • Enciclopedia de Historia Argentina, Editorial Plaza & Janes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La posición argentina en la Sociedad de las Naciones
  2. ↑ La Nación of May 6, 2001 Había un Río Jordan al sur del Nuevo Mundo ... y era el Río de la Plata
  3. ↑ ABC of June 26, 1927 Últimamente han salido: para Lisboa, el ministro de la Argentina, D. Roberto Levillier; for the finca de Fuen abrada
  4. ↑ ABC of January 25, 1935 La Banda de la Orden de la República al Sr. Levillier
  5. ↑ ABC of January 26, 1935 Salutación a Levellier
  6. ↑ World Biography, Volume 2, 1948, Se. 2766.
  7. ↑ Se trata de la Circular 11, una orden secreta emitida en 1938 por el canciller José María Cantilo para que los consules negaran cualquier tipo de visa “a toda persona que fundadamente se considere que abandona su país como indeseable o expulsado, cualquiera sea el motivo de su expulsión "
  8. ↑ Historia de las Relaciones Exteriores Argentinas, Las actividades del nazismo en la Argentina
predecessor Office successor
Daniel García-Mansilla Ambassador of Argentina in Lima from
1922 to 1926 		Ricardo Colombres Marmol
José María Cantilo Ambassador of Argentina in Lisbon in
1927 		Américo Ghioldi
Hilarión Domingo Moreno Montes de Oca Ambassador of Argentina in Warsaw and Moscow, seat in Prague
June 16, 1928 to 1934 		Jose A. Caballero
Juan Lagos Marmol Argentine ambassador to Mexico
1935 to 1937 		Jorge Raúl Yoma
Roque Sáenz Peña Argentine Ambassador to Montevideo
1938 to 1943 		Luis H. Irigoyen
personal data
SURNAME Levillier, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1969
Place of death Buenos Aires