Background
SCHENONI LUGO, Manlio was born on May 2, 1879 in Asunción. Son of Fernando Schenoni and Isabel Lugo de Schenoni.
SCHENONI LUGO, Manlio was born on May 2, 1879 in Asunción. Son of Fernando Schenoni and Isabel Lugo de Schenoni.
Educated Colegio Nacional de Asunción, Escuela Militar de Chile. Escuela de Aplicación de Ingenieros Militares (Santiago, Chile).
Second lieutenant of military engineers in the Chilean Army, 1898. Lieutenant of military engineers in id., 1900. Captain in the Chilean Army, 1903.
Captain of military engineers in the Paraguayan Army, 1904. Major in id., 1904; lieutenant colonel, 1908. Colonel, 1915; general of brigade since 1924.
Secretary of the Paraguayan General Staff, 1905. Director of the Paraguayan Military School and professor of tactics and fortifications in the same, 1905. Member of the Superior Military Tribunal, 1905.
On a special mission to Germany to acquire matériel for the Paraguayan Army, 1907. Secretary of the Ministry of War and Marine, 1908. Prefect-general of ports, 1909.
Resigned from the army, 1911. Resumed his military career, 1912. On a military mission to Chile, 1913.
Secretary of the Ministry of War and Marine, 1914. Director of the Military School and member of the Superior Military Tribunal, 1916. Commander-in-chief of government forces which suppressed the revolutionary uprising of 1922-1923.
Minister of War and Marine, 1922. Appointed inspectorgeneral of the army and reappointed (for the third time) director of the Military School, 1924. Chief of the military mission to Europe for the study and acquisition of matériel for the army, 1926.
Minister of War and Marine (for the second time), 1928. Retired from active service (at his own request), 1931. Subsequently appointed member of the Council of National Defense.
Formerly president of the Military and Naval Center (for officers of both branches of national defense):.
Married Adela Jacquet Godoy de Schenoni.