Germán Ignacio Riesco Explained

Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz (1888 – November 11, 1958) was a Chilean political figure, who served several times as minister between 1919 and 1950. He was of Basque descent[1] and a member of the influential Errázuriz family.

He was born in Santiago in 1888, the son of President Germán Riesco and of First Lady María Errázuriz Echaurren. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile on April 21, 1910. He was Minister of War and Navy of President Juan Luis Sanfuentes between 1919 and 1920; and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1948 and 1950, under President Gabriel González Videla. He married Rosa Barceló Pinto but they had no children.

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  1. Web site: Escritores.cl . 2022-03-04 . 2017-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171208004041/http://www.escritores.cl/base.php?f1=articulos%2Ftexto%2FPenamunoz.htm . dead .