Emilio Frey

Emilio Frey ( born February 2, 1872 in Baradero, Argentina, † May 29 1964 in Bariloche, Argentina ) was a Swiss- Argentine topographer.

Life

Enrique Emilio Frey grew up in Baradero, Province of Buenos Aires, on the eldest of nine children. His father was Swiss in 1863 emigrated to Argentina in order to join the Swiss colony in Baradero, which is the first in Argentina plow agriculture. Father Frey married Bernabela Borda, a native, in 1870.

The training received son Frey in Switzerland, where he lived initially from 1884 to 1892 at his grandfather Rudolf Frey in Zurich. Then he graduated from the pilot plant in Winterthur, now part of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. There he acquired the tools as topographer.

From 1896 he was able to apply his knowledge gained in Europe as a member of the Comision de Limites Argentina- Chile under the direction of Francisco P. Moreno. This Commission was charged by the Argentine government with the boundary adjustment in the Andean region. Topographic as well as geological skills were in demand because the watershed between drains into the Atlantic, Pacific, respectively, had to be assessed not only by damaligem level, but also on the basis of previous erdmechanischer changes. Therefore, partly also acted Santiago Roth with the appropriate expeditions, which also originally belonged to the Swiss colony in Baradero and became known as a paleontologist.

Frey created topographic maps of the Andean region in the disputed border area with Chile on several expeditions. He found, inter alia, the lakes Cholila, Rivadavia and Epuyen. A newly discovered by him lake called Lago Frey Las Ranas. According to a later trip to the same lake together with the American geologist Bailey Willis in 1913 applied for Bailey to call this lake after its discoverer Lago Frey.

The Argentine Agriculture Minister Ramos Mejia appointed in 1910 a Commission for the Evaluation of hydrology in northern Patagonia with Willis as conductor and Frey as Argentine deputy.

1912 married Frey, the Swiss Rosa Maria Schumacher.

After Moreno got out of gratitude for the work done in the border dispute with Chile services by the Argentine state lands, he transferred in 1903 a portion of 7000 hours in the area of Lake Nahuel Huapi back to Argentina with the condition that the town set up a nature reserve. This resulted in 1934, the Nahuel Huapi National Park, was appointed its first director Frey. 1981, this national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Frey was co-founded in 1931 the first President of the Club Andino Bariloche, the first mountain club in Argentina, based in San Carlos de Bariloche. He managed this club for 30 years and was one of the most important figures in the emerging new location Bariloche. In his honor, a mountain refuge was later named after him in the National Park ( Refugio Emilio Frey Ing ).