Óscar Schnake
Secretary General of Socialist Party of Chile
In office
1933–1939
Personal details
Born(1899-05-11)11 May 1899
Galvarino, Chile
Died (aged 76)
Santiago, Chile
Political partySocialist Party
(1933–1976)
SpouseGabriela Contreras Barrenechea[1]
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionPhysician

Oscar Alex Enrique Schnake Vergara (11 June 1899 – 24 April 1976) was a Chilean politician and physician. He was a founder member of the Chilean Socialist Party[2][3] and close to President Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1938–1941).

He has been described as one of the notorious leaders of the Chilean socialdemocracy.[4]

His wife, Gabriela Contreras de Schnake, was mayor of Santiago Centro in the early 1940s.[1]

Biography

In 1933, alongside Eugenio González Rojas, with whom showed his anarchist affiliation, founded the collective Acción Revolucionaria Socialista (ARS). Then, this association and another three merged into the current Socialist Party of Chile in April 1933, so that he was a founder member next to Marmaduke Grove, Eugenio Matte, Salvador Allende and González Rojas.[5]

He was the organizer of the Left Block, a political coalition which reunited left-wing political forces other with the exception of the Communist Party (PC) or the centrist Radical Party (PR). Nevertheless, the rising of both President Arturo Alessandri Palma's liberal-conservative right and Chilean nazis (MNSCh, «nacis») forced him to seal an alliance with the PC and the PR. That way, it was established Popular Front of Chile, whose leader was Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who triumphed the 1938 Chilean presidential election over liberal-manchesterian economist Gustavo Ross Santa María.

In 1948, he was part of the Chilean Anticommunist Action board.[6]

After 1973 coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet, his nephew Eric suffered persecution under Chilean dictatorship.[7]

He died in 1976 away from the political life as did his friend González Rojas. A year later, Raúl Ampuero made a tribute entitled «Óscar Schnake and Eugenio González: Not only history».

Pictures

Discourse Popular Front March
Schnake during a political concentration
1930s		 Rolando Merino Reyes, Schnake and Salvador Allende
9 June 1940.

References

  1. 1 2 Elsey 2011, p. 115.
  2. ↑ Ruíz, Rodrigo (19 March 2014). "Nodo XXI inicia su escuela de formación recordando a Eugenio González Rojas". El Desconcierto. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Salvador Allende, toda una vida por Chile". Escambray. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Rojas, Mauricio (16 July 2019). "Mauricio Rojas: El pacto de la vergüenza". El Líbero. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Ruíz, Rodrigo (30 December 2013). "El Verdugo del siglo XIX Chileno: Eugenio González Rojas". El Desconcierto. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Erich Schnake Silva, un apasionado socialista chileno". Memoria Chilena. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  7. ↑ Délano, Manuel (24 November 2005). "Erich Schnake Silva, un apasionado socialista chileno". El País. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

Further reading

  • Elsey, Brenda (2011). "Citizen & Sportsmen". Fútbol & Politics in 20th-Century Chile. University of Texas Press.
  • Ponce Duran, Pedro. Oscar Schnake Vergara. Comienzos Del Socialismo Chileno, 1933–1942. Ediciones Documentas. Santiago. ISBN 978-9562610179 1994
  • Moraga Valle, Fabio. "Muchachos casi silvestres". La Federación de Estudiantes y el movimiento estudiantil chileno, 1906–1936, Santiago, Universidad de Chile, 2007.
  • Profile at Biblioteca Nacional del Congreso
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