Ernesto Geisel


Ernesto Beckmann Geisel August 1907 September 1996 was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military government.

Ernesto Geisel was born in Bento Gonalves, Rio Grande do Sul province. His father was Guilherme Augusto Geisel , a German Brazilian teacher from Herborn who immigrated to the Empire of Brazil in 1883 at age 16. His mother was the homemaker Lydia Beckmann, born in Brazil in colony to German parents from Osnabrck.

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