Wolfgang Larrazábal

Wolfgang Larrazábal

Infobox_President | name=Wolfgang Larrazábal


order=50th President of Venezuela
term_start=January 23, 1958
term_end=November 14, 1958
predecessor=Marcos Pérez Jiménez
successor=Edgar Sanabria
birth_date=March 5, 1911
birth_place=Carúpano, Sucre state, Venezuela
death_date=death date and age|2003|2|27|1911|3|5|mf=y
death_place= Caracas, Venezuela
party=
religion=Roman Catholic


spouse=Mercedes María Peláez |

Wolfgang Larrazábal (March 5 1911February 27 2003), Commander of the Venezuelan Navy, became President of Venezuela following the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958.

Larrazábal was born in Carúpano, Sucre state, was the son of Fabio Larrazábal and Jerónima Ugueto, and attended college at the Pestalozzi Institute of Maracaibo. He later entered the Naval School (1928-1932). Between 1942 and 1945, Larrazábal was captain of the Venezuelan Navy's "General Urdaneta", "Leandro" and "Soublette" ships, later becoming commander of the Naval Base of Puerto Cabello. In July 1947 he was named commander of the Armed Forces of Venezuela, and, in 1949, naval attaché of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC. Larrazábal also served as director of the National Institute of Sports (1952-1955), director of the Circle of the Armed Forces (1957-1958), and at the beginning of 1958, commander of the Venezuelan Navy.

After the overthrow of long-time dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Admiral Larrazábal was appointed as interim president of the Government Junta on January 23 1958. His term was characterized by his Emergency Plan, designed to ameliorate adverse economic conditions and speed up the return to democracy. Fairly popular, especially in comparison to Perez Jiménez, he resigned later that year in order to run in the elections of (November 14 1958) (Edgar Sanabria was appointed as caretaker president at that point). Larrazábal obtained 903,479 votes, finishing second to AD's Rómulo Betancourt.

Larrazábal served as ambassador of Venezuela in Chile (1959 - 1969), and ran again for president for the Frente Democrático (FDP) and Movimiento Electoral Nacional Independiente (MENI) parties in the 1963 elections, in which he obtained only 9.43% of the vote. He later served several terms in the Venezuelan parliament.

See also

*Venezuela
*Presidents of Venezuela

References

* [http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gob.ve/venezuela/perfil_presidente33.html Wolfgang Larrazábal] — Official biography.
* [http://www.efemeridesvenezolanas.com/html/larrazabal.htm Wolfgang Larrazábal]


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