Raúl Aldunate Phillips (29 December 1906 - 26 December 1979) was a Chilean writer, politician, and soldier.

Biography

Raul was the son of Emilio Aldunate Bascuñán[1] and Emilia Phillips Huneeus. Raul, himself, married a woman by the name of María Teresa Menéndez Montes, with whom he had five children. Raul studied at the Andrés Bello Institute in Santiago, Chile, before entering Military School. In Military School he obtained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1927.

Military career

Raul served as an assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and was deputy director of the Army Memorial. He also stood out for his services in the General Staff, reaching the rank of Captain on September 22, 1938. Among the most important military commissions assigned, were the designations as military attaché in China and Japan, as well as that of professor of the Army Cavalry School.

Founder of the Civil Defence of Chile

At the beginning of 1941, the General staff of the Army, concerned to meet the needs of the national defense of the country, arranged for Captain Raúl Aldunate Phillips, an officer who was in the United States, to study the problems within that country. Related to civil defense and protection of the population.

Being commissioned by the Chilean State to study the situation of the mechanisms and systems related to Civil Defence in the United States during the 1940s, after formally presenting the respective reports and creating the defense organ in question, he was the first General Director of the Civil Defence of Chile.

Political career

Raul was elected deputy for the twenty-fifth department grouping of "Ancud, Castro, and Quinchao" in the period of 1949–1953, a faction for which he was re-elected for the period of 1957–1961. He also served as a deputy replacing the Permanent Commission on Foreign Affairs and joined the Permanent Commission of National Defense, as well as the Permanent Commission of External Relations.

He was appointed Delegate of Chile at the International Labour Conference in 1941, and with the rank of minister, attended the transfer of command in Argentina in 1945.

Other highlighted actions

He was Vice President of the Exploratory Society of Chiloé and Destilory of Quellón and member of the Society of Writers of Chile.

References

  1. ↑ Aldunate Phillips, Raúl (1970). La revolución de los tenientes: tres años de la historia de Chile. Desde el ruido de sables en el Senado (septiembre de 1924) durante la presidencia de don Arturo Alessandri Palma, hasta el 2 de julio de 1927 en que asume el mando supremo el coronel Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (in Spanish). Escuela Lito-tipográfica La Gratitud Nacional. Retrieved 2021-03-21. Una mañana, llegó a la Comandancia de "Cazadores", mi compadre el doctor Emilio Aldunate Bascuñán con su hijo Raúl como premio por haberse recibido tempranamente de Bachiller en Humanidades. Cumpliendo sus deseos, me lo traía a hacer la Guardia en mi Regimiento (...)


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