Carlos Wiederhold Piwonka (July 9, 1867 in Osorno, Chile – July 29, 1935 in Santiago, Chile ) was a
German-Chilean
German Chileans ( es, germanochilenos; german: Deutsch-Chilenen) are Chileans descended from German immigrants, about 30,000 of whom arrived in Chile between 1846 and 1914. Most of these were from Bavaria, Baden and the Rhineland, and also from ...
entrepreneur known for establishing the shop ''La Alemana'' in 1895, which the city of
Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche (), is a city in the province of Río Negro Province, Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. It is located within the Nahuel ...
in Argentina grew out of. Wiederhold came from the wealthiest family of city of
Osorno whose ancestors had arrived in the Chilean government programme of
German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue.
As Weiderhold was named consul of the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
in Chile he left Bariloche for
Puerto Montt in the 1900s.
[ In Puerto Montt Wiederhold continued to run the business while in Bariloche Weiderhold's business partner Federico Hube, also a German-Chilean from Osorno, was left in charge of local affairs.][
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1867 births
20th-century German diplomats
Chilean businesspeople
Chilean emigrants to Argentina
Chilean people of German descent
People from Osorno, Chile
Year of death missing