Ernesto FLORIT

Background

FLORIT, Ernesto was born on November 21, 1889 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Education

Educated Colegio Militar. Escuela de Tiro; Escuela Superior de Guerra, 1918-1920.

Career

Head of operations division, 5th army division, 1930. President, provincial board of edn., Tucumán, 1930. Division chief in general staff, 1931.

Military adviser, Argentine delegation to Disarmament Conference, 1932. Adviser, delegation to Chaco Peace Conference, 1935. Artillery commander, 2d army division, 1936.

President, special commission to repatriate Chaco prisoners of war, 1936. Head, international politics division of general staff, 1937. Chief of staff of army air force, 1937.

President, military commission to set boundary with Paraguay and Bolivia, 1938. Director, Liceo Militar General San Martin, 1938-1943. Commandant, 5th army division, 1943-1944.

Director general of military schools, 1944-1945. Commander, anti-aircraft defense of the interior, 1945-1947. Commander, electoral district of province of Santiago del Estero, 1946.

Retired from active service, 1947.

Membership

Member armaments tech, commission, 1924. Member: Institute Cultural ArgentinoParaguayo (director).

Connections

Father:

Antonio Florit

Mother:

Agapita Martínez

Spouse:

Mercedes de los Santos Descole

child:

María del Carmen FLORIT

child:

Guillermo FLORIT