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List Of Commanders-in-chief Of The Chilean Army
This article lists the commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army. The Chilean Army ( es, Ejército de Chile) is the land force of Chile. The Chilean Army dates back to 1810. The current Commander-in-Chief is Army General Javier Iturriaga del Campo. He was appointed by former President Sebastián Piñera on 9 March 2022. Independence and national organization (1810–1830) , - ! Colspan=6, Army Commander-in-chief Conservative and liberal republics (1830–1891) , - ! Colspan=6, Army Commander-in-chief , - ! Colspan=6, Senior General Officer , - ! Colspan=6, Field Commander-in-chief , - ! Colspan=6, Inspector General , - ! Colspan=6, Field Commander-in-chief Parliamentary republic (1891–1925) Presidential republic (1925–1973) , - ! Colspan=6, Inspector General , - ! Colspan=6, Army Commander-in-chief Military regime and the present (1973–present) See also * Chilean Army * List of commanders-in-ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Iturriaga Del Campo
Javier Eduardo Iturriaga del Campo (born 26 October 1965) is a Chilean military general. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in military science and a master's degree in the same area with a major in planning and strategic management from Chilean Army War Academy. He is known for having been appointed Chief for National Defense of Santiago Metropolitan Region by President Sebastián Piñera during the state of emergency that he decreted in 2019–20 riots famously known as Estallido Social de Chile. Early life He is the son of Dante Iturriaga Marchese, a military man by profession, and Gloria del Campo Ortiz. He is the second of six siblings and nephew of the also militar Pablo Iturriaga, Cautín Province Mayor in 1974 involved in human right violations cases during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973–1990). Military career He joined the Military Academy of General Libertator Bernardo O'Higgins in 1980. During his military career, he has served as a General Staff Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmo Escala
Erasmo Escala Arriagada (June 2, 1826 – March 3, 1884) was a Chilean soldier who served as commander-in-chief of the army during part of the War of the Pacific. He was born in Valparaíso, where he also completed his first studies. He joined the Military Academy in 1837. He participated in the battle of Yungay, during the war against the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy, and later in the Pacification of the Araucanía. During the battle of Loncomilla, in the 1851 revolution, he was injured and lost one of his arms. General Escala was already a veteran when on July 18, 1879, during the War of the Pacific, was called by Domingo Santa María, principal minister of President Aníbal Pinto, to assume command of the army in replacement of General Justo Arteaga, who had just resigned due to political in-fighting. Santa Maria chose him because a popular soldier was wanted at the head of the army. More to the point, Santa Maria also wanted someone who would be malleable and pliant to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Izurieta Molina
Óscar Izurieta Molina (October 24, 1909 – August 17, 1990) was a Chilean military man. Molina had the grade of General of the Army and was Commander in Chief of the Army of Chile from November 14, 1958, to November 3, 1964. He is the father of former commander in chief, General Oscar Izurieta Ferrer and was the first commander in chief who used the name of Army General as Commander in Chief. His father was Ricardo Izurieta Torres, a Spanish immigrant originally from Ortigosa de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain, who arrived in Chile during the first decade of the twentieth century. Molina graduated from the Military Academy at age 16 and joined the Army War College of Chile at 22. He served in the Infantry School and the Military Academy. In 1941, he went to the United States, becoming the first Chilean official at the Infantry School of Fort Benning, Georgia. He will later become Commander in Chief. He was also a member of the Council of State of Chile during the military government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Fernández Reyes
Rafael Fernández Reyes (born 11 March 1897) was a general and Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. He took office as commander-in-chief on 9 January 1950 and left on 28 October 1952. He also was a fencer, and competed in the individual sabre competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. See also * List of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army This article lists the commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army. The Chilean Army ( es, Ejército de Chile) is the land force of Chile. The Chilean Army dates back to 1810. The current Commander-in-Chief is Army General Javier Iturriaga del Cam ... References External links * 1897 births Year of death missing Chilean Army generals Chilean male sabre fencers Olympic fencers of Chile Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics 20th-century Chilean people {{Chile-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Otero Mujica
Luis Otero Mujica (1879, Putaendo – 1940) was a general and Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army The Chilean Army ( es, Ejército de Chile) is the land arm of the Military of Chile. This 80,000-person army (9,200 of which are conscripts) is organized into six divisions, a special operations brigade and an air brigade. In recent years, and .... He took office as commander-in-chief on 3 August 1932 and left the same year on 26 December. 1879 births 1940 deaths People from Putaendo Chilean people of Galician descent Chilean Ministers of Defense Chilean Army generals {{Chile-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomé Blanche
Bartolomé Guillermo Blanche Espejo (June 6, 1879 – June 10, 1970) was a Chilean military officer and provisional president of Chile in 1932. Life He was born in La Serena, Coquimbo Region, where he completed his early studies. Later, he was accepted at the military academy. He had a very successful military career and was promoted to brigadier general in 1927. Politics In 1932, he became interior minister in the provisional government of Carlos Dávila Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza (September 15, 1887 – October 19, 1955), was a Chilean political figure, journalist, chairman of the Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) from .... After the latter's resignation, he became provisional president on September 13, 1932. Nonetheless, the Antofagasta coup d'état of September 27, 1932, followed by the uprising of the army garrison of Concepción, forced him to resign less than a month later, on October 3. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Dartnell
Division General Pedro Pablo Dartnell Encina (December 24, 1873 – September 26, 1944) was a Chilean military officer and member of the Government Junta of Chile in 1925. Early life Dartnell was born in the city of Linares in 1873, the son of Robert Loder Dartnell and of Carmen Encina Ibáñez. He studied engineering at the Universidad de Chile, specializing in military engineering. In 1885 he was accepted as an Officer Cadet to the Military Academy, where he studied until 1891. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant on January 15, 1891. During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, Dartnell served with the corps of military engineers, and joined the ranks of the Congressional Army. He participated in the battles of Concón and Placilla. That same year he was promoted to Lieutenant and then Captain. After the end of the war, he studied civil engineering at the University of Chile. With the great reform of the Chilean Army, he was sent to specialize in Europe. He travelled to Belgium, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Altamirano
Luis Altamirano Talavera (July 5, 1867 – July 25, 1938) was a Chilean military officer, minister, Vice President of the Republic and finally president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1924 and 1925. He was born in Concepción on the son of Eulogio Altamirano Araceda and Antonia Adelina Talavera Appleby. He studied law and started a career in the ministry of Justice. During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, he joined the congressional army as an artillery captain. He was a lieutenant colonel by the end of it, a year later. After the end of revolution he left the army, only to return in 1897. The year after, he was named commander of Regiment Nº3 of artillery. In 1908 was promoted to full colonel, and named Under-Chief of General staff. In 1911, he was sent as military attaché to the Chilean embassy in Berlin. In 1912, was promoted to brigadier general, and named Inspector General of artillery, and Army Chief of staff. In 1919 was promoted to division general, and named c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Boonen
General Jorge Boonen Rivera (April 16, 1858 – December 6, 1921) was a Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...an military officer and minister. He was appointed as Army Inspector General (''Army Commander-in-chief'') on April 19, 1910, a position he held until April 26, 1921. References Bibliography * 1858 births 1921 deaths Chilean Ministers of Defense Chilean Army generals Chilean people of French descent People from Valparaíso Chilean people of Belgian descent {{Chile-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Körner
Emil Körner Henze (10 October 1846 in Wegwitz – 25 March 1920 in Berlin), sometimes called Emilio Körner Henze in Spanish, was a German officer (Hauptmann) of the Prussian Army and Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army with the rank of Inspector General from 1900 to 1910.Lockhart, J. (2019). Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective. Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvnjbhc1 Early life Emil Theodor Körner was born on October 10, 1846 in Wegnitz in the Merseburg district, a province of Saxony in the Kingdom of Prussia, son of Ludwig Körner and Alwina Henze, being baptized in the Lutheran faith as were his parents. From his earliest childhood he was educated under rigid Prussian precepts, which would bear him an innumerable amount of fruits in his life. His first scholarly steps were in entering the city college of Halle in the same province of Saxony, from which he graduated with his bachelor's degree in 1866 with outsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Holley
Adolfo Holley Urzúa (born in Talca; 1833—11 November 1914) was a Chilean general who served in the War of the Pacific and in the 1891 Chilean Civil War and held posts in the resulting government. Holley embarked upon his military career in the Occupation of the Araucanía in the Arauco War. At the start of the War of the Pacific, he was commissioned as second in command of the regiment ''Esmeralda'' when it was created after the division of the older ''Carampangue'' in May 1879. Serving in this position, Holley fought in the Battle of Tacna. He was promoted to commander of the regiment when its prior commander, Santiago Amengual, was named chief of the First Division in the Lima Campaign. Holley fought in the Battle of Chorrillos (Battle of San Juan) and the Battle of Miraflores, where his regiment suffered heavy losses. After the capture of Lima and the Chilean occupation of Lima, he remained in Peru with the Esmeralda regiment, taking part in the Breña Campaign (Campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Francisco Gana Castro
José Francisco Gana Castro (February 19, 1828 - August 7, 1894) was the Chilean Minister of Defense from October 15, 1890, to March 29, 1891, as well as the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from August 22, 1888, to September 4, 1891, and was a notable participant of the War of the Pacific before being exiled to Spain after the defeat of the Balmaceda Government. He was also one of the founders of the Mulchén throughout the planning of the foundations of the city. Biography Castro was born on February 19, 1828, as the son of Rafael Gana López and Benigna Castro Cruz. At the age of 15, he entered the before going to study military engineering at France at the Metz Military School on 1843. He also married Carmen Vicuña Cañas around 1838. After graduating, he became a member of the French Army as artillery lieutenant until 1850 where he moved to the United Kingdom before returning to Chile in 1852. He was promoted to captain in 1854 and to sergeant major in 1859. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |