Ernesto Montagne Markholz
Ernesto Montagne Markholz (May 3, 1885
In 1950, Ernesto wanted to compete against General Manuel A. Odría in the presidential election, but he was arrested and exiled. He was the father of Ernesto Montagne Sánchez, who, like his father, was also a military officer and politician, who became Prime Minister of Peru in the government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado .
Biography
He was born to Adhemar Montagne Crepin, who was of French descent and María Eugenia Markholz Walsh, who was of German descent. He studied at the Licentico cientifico, at the Colegio Aleman , Colegio San José de Cluny (1889) and then at the Technical School of Commerce (1900).
He entered the Military School of Chorrillos in 1902 and obtained the sword of honoraafter his graduation and the rank of
In 1909, in the chapel of the House of Armies, he married Raquel Sánchez-Benavides La Rosa, with whom he had seven children, including General Ernesto Montagne Sánchez.
Promoted to sergeant major in 1915, he was assigned as an adjunct to the Infantry and Shooting Inspectorate. In 1918, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was appointed head of a section in the General Staff of the Army; but shortly afterwards he was transferred to the Military School to take charge of his subdirectorate.
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Initially, his cabinet was predominantly filled with Army officers, Later, from October 1937, important civilian figures joined him, such as Dr. Carlos Concha (Foreign Relations), Benjamín Roca (Finance and Commerce) and Rafael Escardó (Public Health, Works and Social Welfare). In December 1938,
After the coup attempt by General Antonio Ramirez Rodríguez (who was a government minister) and the government's subsequent announcement to call general elections, the Montagne cabinet resigned on March 29, 1939, but his resignation was not accepted. He again requested it in April and then President Benavides oversaw the formation of another cabinet, headed by Manuel Ugarteche Jiménez, what was the last government of Benavides era.
Montagne was elected senator from Loreto (1939–1945), and became President of the Senate for two terms (1939–1941). While serving in the post, he had to receive the presidential sash from the hands of Benavides and place it on the new president, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, at the ceremony of handover of presidency on December 8, 1939.
Once again elected senator from Loreto in 1945, he supported President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and, together with lawmakers of the National Democratic Front, tried to contain and mitigate the opposition, APRA.
The Bustamante government was overthrown after the coup d'état of General Manuel A. Odría on October 27, 1948, who formed a Military Junta and called for presidential elections in 1950. Odría would be the candidate, but there was a problem: according to the constitution, an incumbent president can not be candidate in presidential elections, for which he had to resign at least six months prior to the elections. Odría then implemented his famous "descent to the plain": with barely a month to go before the elections, he left power to General Zenón Noriega (June 1950). The opposition, united into the National Democratic League, in turn nominated General Ernesto Montagne as the candidate. But the National Electoral court rejected his registration on June 11, 1950; the next day the deadly Arequipa rebellion broke out. The government blamed the National Democratic League for the revolt and Montagne was arrested under various pretexts, although he was released after two weeks. The Military Junta then decided to deport General Montagne to Argentina, asking him to request it in writing, a request that they did not obtain. So the alleged extradition was never carried out. Odría as the sole candidate in that election, which was regarded as a farce.
Retired to private life, General Montagne died a few years later, in 1954.
Bibliography
- El Mariscal Benavides, su vida y su obra. Volume II. Lima, Editorial Atlántida, 1981.
- Basadre, Jorge: Historia de la República del Perú. 1822 – 1933, Eifhth Edition, amended and expanded. Volume 12. Edited by the newspaper "La República" of Lima and the University of "Ricardo Palma". Published in Santiago, Chile, 1998.
- Guerra, Margarita: Historia General del Perú. Voulne XII. La República Contemporánea (1919–1950). First Edition. Editorial Milla Batres. Lima, Perú, 1984.
- Tauro del Pino, Alberto: Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Third Edition. Volume 11, MEN/OJE. Lima, PEISA, 2001. ISBN 9972-40-160-9
References
- ISBN 9780879170219.
- ^ "Presidentes del Congreso de 1901 al 1950". www.congreso.gob.pe.
- ^ Abog. Freddy Ronald Centurión González. "La Institución de la Vicepresidencia de la República en la Constitución Peruana" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-10-19.