List of German Argentines - Historical Figures

Historical Figures

  • Virginia Bolten (notable anarchist and feminist)
  • Tamara Bunke (famous communist revolutionary)
  • Richard Walther Darré (one of the ideologist of Blood and soil)
  • Federico Figner (cinematographer, he made the first 3 films of Argentina)
  • Gunther Plüschow (aviator, he was the first to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by air; honoured as a hero by the Argentine air force to this day)
  • Omar Alberto Rupp (mariner killed during Malvinas War)
  • Ulrich Schmidl (he was the chronicler of the first Foundation of Buenos Aires)
  • Ernesto Tornquist (prominent manager, he founded the Tornquist Bank, the Tornquist city and Tornquist Partido in Buenos Aires Province among many other contributions)
  • Teodoro Waldner (Argentine Air Force brigadier during Malvinas War)

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