Alberto Baldrich was an Argentine philosopher and sociologist who served as Minister of Justice and Public Instruction (1944–45) during the de facto presidency of General Edelmiro Farrell (1944–46).

Biography

He was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, the son of General Alonso Baldrich. He was one of the original members of the Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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, created and directed in 1940 by Ricardo Levene. His intellectual circle included Hector Bernard, Adolfo Silenzio de Stagni, Federico Ibarguren, and Ramón Doll.

Baldrich was appointed financial comptroller of Tucumán Province

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

 by the de facto President, General Pedro Pablo Ramírez

Pedro Pablo Ramírez

General Pedro Pablo Ramírez was de facto President of Argentina from June 7, 1943 to February 24, 1944. He was the founder and leader of the Guardia Nacional, Argentina's Fascist militia....

, in 1943, and in 1944 he was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Instruction by President Farrell, replacing conservative Catholic writer Gustavo Martinez Zuviría

Hugo Wast

Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría , best known under his pseudonym Hugo Wast, was a renowned Argentine novelist and script writer....

. His administration continued the nationalist elitist line Martínez began, but was more geared to Hispanism

Hispanism

Hispanism is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Latin America...

 and economic nationalism

Economic nationalism

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. He appointed as Assistant Secretary of Education, working with Adolfo Silenzio de Stagni; during the Revolution of 1943, he adhered himself to Peronism

Peronism

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. Following Juan Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

's return from exile in 1973, he was appointed education minister of Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

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 by the newly-elected Governor, Oscar Bidegain. Baldrich died in Buenos Aires in 1982.