Germán Busch
President of Bolivia (1937-1939) · Bolivia · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1903 to 1939 · aged 36
Víctor Germán Busch Becerra was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 until his death in 1939.
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Germán's father Pablo Busch Wiesener, c. 1930.
Busch (standing, second from left) as a cadet at the Military College of the Army.
Wedding photograph of Germán Busch and Matilde Carmona, 1928.
Obverse and reverse of the Order of the Condor of the Andes awarded to Germán Busch in 1931.
Chaco War combatants. (From left) Hugo Ballivián, David Toro, Gabriel Gosálvez, Enrique Peñaranda, Enrique Baldivieso, Ángel Rodríguez, and Busch.
David Toro persuaded Busch to join Enrique Peñaranda's General Staff.
The conspirators that planned and executed the fall of President José Luis Tejada Sorzano in May 1936.About this person
Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff and was the Supreme Leader of the Legion of Veterans, a veterans' organization founded by him after his service in the Chaco War.
