Hermes da Fonseca

Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca ( born May 12, 1855 in São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, † September 9, 1923 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian marshal, politician and from 15 November 1910 to the November 15, 1914 eighth President of Brazil. He belonged to the Partido Republicano Conservador (PRC).

Previously, he worked for several years minister of war and invited in this capacity in 1908 as the first non-European war minister to the autumn maneuvers in Germany. It is known that he had for the German Reich and Kaiser Wilhelm II a lot of sympathy.

Hermes Fonseca advocated monarchist tendencies in his own country does not expressly, but also was not hostile towards you. The Brazilian monarchists were more open than ever to occur and had now gained so much influence that it even managed to push through the construction of a monument to Emperor Peter II in Petrópolis, whose unveiling also attended President Fronseca.