Ernesto Tornquist

Ernesto Tornquist ( born December 31, 1842 in Buenos Aires, † June 1908 in Buenos Aires ) was an industrialist and founder of Banco Tornquist.

Life

Ernesto Tornquists grandparents came from Hamburg and their eponymous ancestors came again from around Karlskrona in Sweden. Torquists father, Jorge Pedro Ernesto Tornquist (1801-1876), was born in Baltimore in the United States and later worked as a merchant in Buenos Aires. Besides, he also had the function of a consul of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Montevideo in Uruguay. Tornquists mother, Rosa Camusso Alsina (1805 - 1871), came from Buenos Aires. The father was Lutheran and her mother are Roman Catholics.

Tornquist first attended in Buenos Aires, the Protestant German School ( Escuela Alemana Evangélica ) and continued his education from 1856 to 1858 in Germany in Krefeld on.

Tornquist founded in 1874, a company for exports and imports of agricultural goods and machinery. In 1880 he was in Rosario (Argentina ) build the large sugar factory Refineria Argentina. Among other things, the devoted family Tornquist fishery on the Islas Georgias del Sur, means the company Argentinia de Pesca of petroleum exploration in Mendoza, the cultivation of quebracho in Santiago and the construction of the railroad of the north of Santa Fe with Belgian capital. Ernesto Tornquist played a crucial role in the negotiations that prevented a war between Argentina and Chile. He was friends with the President Julio A. Roca and Carlos Pellegrini in and was against the military plans of the Minister Estanislao Zeballos during the presidency of José Figueroa Alcorta ( 1906-1910 ). In addition, Ernesto Tornquist Tornquist founded the city in the Pampas Argentinias near Bahía Blanca south of Buenos Aires, which now has a national park.