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| Ernesto Tornquist |
Two years later, he returned to Buenos Aires to work as a customs broker in the commercial that he directed his brother in law -Altgelt, Ferber and Company. This business house was a firm that was dedicated to the export of wool and hides and the import of agricultural machinery as the Krupp´s representatives, had its origins in Buenos Aires founded in 1828 by the German Carlos Alberto Bunge. After the death of Bunge, the company was reorganized under the direction of his nephew, Adam Altgelt which was married Ernesto´s sister Laura Micaela Tornquist Camusso . In 1874, Tornquist went on to lead the firm which then adopted the name of Ernesto Tornquist y Cia., Which is linked with traders in Antwerp, whose contributions enabled the diversity capital of the company.
He made a meteoric career in Argentina society, from his father's business and family relationships of his Creole mother. In1890 it was the most important banker in Buenos Aires, and from then until his death in 1908, became the demiurge of Argentina's economy. Gotta represent Rothschild (English and French),Deutsche Bank, Bank of Paris (BNP Paribas) and the Netherlands and JP Morgan, in short, the entire international financial elitewith interests in Argentina. Still, his activities were not limited to banking, businessman and was also developed significantbusiness in the agribusiness, farms, flour mills, sugar mills and others. He was hated, even by the press who paid: there was nosocial style, wrote badly and was sharp in his considerations, not pushed too hard and never apologized.
Ernesto Tornquist began investing in salt licks and refrigerators, and bought land in Santa Fe, Entre Rios and essentially won to the Indian territory.
The first phase: 1880-1914The struggle Tornquist-Zeballos
Ernesto Tornquist (1), representative of the Krupp house in Buenos Aires, worked tenaciously for an expensive weapons program. But his influence in government was declining as his friends moved away from the political scene. Carlos Pellegrini had died and another powerful friend, Julio Argentino Roca, had left the public service. To make matters worse, Estanislao Zeballos Tornquist took a bitter enemy, and this, as is known, exerted a great influence on the Argentine government until mid-1908 as foreign minister of the government of José Figueroa Alcorta. While Zeballos prompted a naval rearmament policy guidance antibrasileña, Tornquist, as opposed to buying new battleships would inevitably lead to a career suicide Brazil, spread the idea in Congress to limit the arms and come to a sort of tried to balancebrackets forces of Argentina, Brazil and Chile (2).
Following the declaration of war between Zeballos and Tornquist, Krupp was found in an extremely uncomfortable. Its operations in Argentina were heavily threatened by the vehement opposition of his agent Tornquist Foreign Minister Zeballos, who also had the support of the war and interior ministers. Zeballos began to exert a powerful pressure against the enemy by the end of 1907. In 1908, then-seriously ill Tornquist, who died in June of that year, reacted by opposing factions supporting the government during the electoral campaign of the members of Congress, and signed a public manifesto in which protesting the temporary closure of Congress decreed by the president. Zeballos in turn increased the pressure. Following these incidents, after consultation with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, German Krupp von Bohlen-Halbach cut his firm's links with the local agent Tornquist. Puzzled, the latter persisted in the idea of removing Zeballos office in the government-which in fact occurred in the month of June through a media campaign launched with an article in The Nation in March 1908 (3 .)
Tornquist was a close friend of President Roca, and provided financial support for his Desert Campaign, taking charge of buying fabricsfor uniforms for the troops.
Picturesque mountains Patriotic loan bonds that financed the military campaign wereredeemable for land "clean Indians, why Tornquist agreed to fiftysquare leagues in those old mountains that have a hole in a window, a strange feature made to be baptized in the chain as Sierra de la Ventana.
Ernesto Tornquist. He was in charge of war provisions and negotiates, He carries the Indian slave prisoners slaves to his harvest fileds in tucuman . The ranqueles were free labor for years as a result of the campaign in La Pampa and he took care of that deal. Most finance ministers were related with Tornquist companies.
