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Fernando Matthei (Fernando Matthei Aubel) was born on 11 July, 1925 in Osorno, Chile, is a Chilean Air Force General. Discover Fernando Matthei's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 11 July, 1925
Birthday 11 July
Birthplace Osorno, Chile
Date of death 19 November, 2017
Died Place Santiago, Chile
Nationality Chile

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1925

Fernando Matthei Aubel (11 July 1925 – 19 November 2017) was a Chilean Air Force general who was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, replacing the dismissed Gustavo Leigh as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Air Force on 24 July 1978.

1945

The son of Fernando Matthei Aubel Gunkel and Luisa Gunkel Renz, Matthei entered the Aviation School in 1945 and the following year he was assigned to the Condors Air Base, where he obtained his appointment as a fighter pilot.

1948

In 1948, he was commissioned as a sublieutenant and was assigned to the No. 4 Bomber Group in Colina, serving concurrently as a flight instructor at the School of Aviation and Officers.

1951

He was promoted to lieutenant in 1951.

That same year he married Elda Fornet, with whom he had five children: Fernando, Evelyn, Robert, Hedy Jaqueline and Victor Alejandro.

1953

In 1953 he traveled to the United States to study flight instruction at Craig Air Force Base in Alabama.

1954

He was promoted to flight captain in 1954, teaching classes in arms at the Aviation School.

1957

In 1957, he was assigned to Wing 1 in the Antofagasta Cerro Moreno Base.

1960

Posted to Santiago in 1960, he was promoted to squadron commander and sent to the School of Aviation.

He became the adjutant to the air force commander in chief, General Eduardo Iensen, the following year.

1966

In 1966 he was promoted to group commander and served as commander of Aviation Group Nº7 between 1968 and 1969, when he was sent to visit facilities of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

On his return home, he was appointed professor at the Air War Academy.

1969

From October 1969 he was a professor of the Pilots Course for Tactical Hawker Hunter Aircraft in Aviation Group No. 7.

1971

In November 1971, he served as air attaché in the Chilean embassies in Britain and Sweden, based in London.

1973

On 12 October 1973, he was appointed Chief of the Air Mission of Chile in London.

After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, he returned to Chile as director of the Air Force Academy.

1975

In January 1975, Matthei was promoted to air brigade general.

1976

On 19 March 1976 he was appointed Minister of Health.

1978

He was part of the Junta from 1978 to 1990, and served as minister of health from 1976 to 1978, retiring from the Air Force in July 1991.

The 24 July 1978, after the dismissal of General Gustavo Leigh and of most generals of the institution, Matthei was promoted to air general and appointed commander of the air force and a member of the military junta, occupying the Second Legislative Committee chair.

Before becoming a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government.

1980

Later the same day, the government stated that the referendum result would be respected and that the 1980 Constitution path to democracy would be strictly followed.

Pinochet backed down and accepted the result.

The ensuing Constitutional process led to presidential and legislative elections the following year.

1988

In October 1988, Matthei was pivotal in preventing another power grab by Pinochet after the dictator lost the referendum to elect him for a new eight-year presidential term.

Matthei was the first member of the junta to publicly admit to the press, while entering La Moneda to meet Pinochet, that Pinochet had lost the plebiscite.

In the wake of his electoral defeat, Pinochet had convened a meeting of his junta at La Moneda, in which he requested that they give him extraordinary powers to have the military seize the capital.

Matthei refused, saying that he would not agree to such a thing under any circumstances, and the rest of the junta followed his lead.

1990

In 1990, with the return of democracy, Matthei ceased to be a member of the military junta, but retained his position as the commander in chief of the Air Force.

1991

He retired voluntarily on 31 July 1991 (although, as Pinochet, he could have continued to serve until 1998) and noted that with his retirement, the air force could fully adapt to democracy.

2003

2003 saw the publishing of the book ''Matthei.

Mi testimonio'', written by Chilean historians Patricia Arancibia and Isabel de la Maza, in which Matthei recounts his public life.

Arancibia P. y de la Maza I. (2003) ''Matthei.

Mi testimonio''.

La Tercera/Mondadori, Santiago.

2005

In September 2005, Matthei admitted in a television program that he "did everything possible so that Argentina would lose" the 1982 Falklands War with Britain.

The extent of Chilean assistance to the UK is documented in a book, My Secret Falklands War, by retired Royal Air Force Wing Commander Sidney Edwards, who was sent to Chile by the British government to act as a liaison between the Chilean and British governments during the conflict.

Matthei was born among a community of German Chileans in Southern Chile.

2013

Matthei was the father of Chilean senator and 2013 presidential candidate and current mayor of Providencia Evelyn Matthei.

2017

He died in 2017 and was buried in Parque del Recuerdo, Santiago de Chile.