Ernesto Alemann (1893–1982) was the son of
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
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*Swiss Internation ...
immigrants to
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. For several decades he was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the family newspaper ''
Argentinisches Tageblatt
''Argentinisches Tageblatt'' () is a German-language weekly newspaper published every Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
History
The newspaper was founded by a Swiss immigrant from Bern, Johann Alemann, and his son, Moritz, in 1878. It was firs ...
'', printed in German, in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
. Ernesto Alemann played an important role in the opposition to
Nazi
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Germany in the 1930s in Argentina, and was greatly respected in the German colony of Argentina for the role he took in opposing
Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...
, in particular in the editorials and articles of the Argentinisches Tageblatt. In order to have an alternative to the Nazified Goethe School in Buenos Aires, Ernesto Alemann founded the Pestalozzi school called
Colegio Pestalozzi in Buenos Aires in 1934.
1893 births
1982 deaths
Argentine people of Swiss-German descent
Argentine newspaper editors
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