Eduardo Schaerer
President of Paraguay
Died when: 67 years 345 days (815 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Eduardo Schaerer Vera y Aragón (2 December 1873 – 12 November 1941) was a Swiss-Paraguayan businessman, publisher, and Liberal politician.He served as President of the Republic of Paraguay between 1912 and 1916.
Schaerer was succeeded by Manuel Franco on 15 August 1916.Ex-president Schaerer continued in public service as a senator in 1921 and founded the newspaper La Tribuna (The Tribune) in 1925.
Schaerer was born in Caazapá, on 2 December 1873 to Santiago Schaerer and Elizabeth Vera y Aragon.His father was a notable Swiss colonizer (from Vordemwald, Aargau), and the special character that distinguished Schaerer was inherited from him.
Schaerer married to Matilde Heisecke (daughter of Christian Heisecke, a German diplomat and consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).She had seven children with him, including Arturo Schaerer Heisecke, director of La Tribuna after his father and a recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a journalism award of the Columbia University, in 1953.