Manuel Hormazábal González

Career Hormazábal joined the Chilean Army, reaching the rank of colonel. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1918 as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Infantry Regiment "Buin". Throughout his military career, he served in the Non-Commissioned Officers School, the Military Academy, and the 8th Mountain Detachment "Tucapel", concluding his military service in 1939.

His work focused on the field of Chile's borders, contributing to technical studies on territorial boundaries.

He served as deputy director of the Military Geographic Institute between 1930 and 1939, during which he held all managerial positions and also taught various technical subjects. For a time, starting on May 13, 1936, he was absent from the country on a study trip to Germany.

He was educated at the French Army Geographic Service and the Prussian Geodetic Institute in Potsdam, Thanks to his European training, he participated as Chile's official delegate at the International Geodesy Assembly held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1936 and the International Photogrammetry Congress held in Berlin, Germany, in 1937. as chief technical officer in Geodesy and Topography.

In 1939, he was interrogated as a former officer due to his involvement in the Ariostazo and was sentenced to three years of confinement in Lima, Peru.

Between 1940 and 1942, he worked as an attaché in the Secretariat of War, Navy, and Aviation, served as a military advisor to the government of Honduras, and taught geodesy and astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Honduras in Tegucigalpa. During his stay in Honduras, the National Assembly approved various military organic laws, and the government issued regulations of the same nature, which he was tasked with drafting. He resigned when Honduras declared war on Germany, at a time when Chile still maintained neutrality.

He was a member of the Agrarian Labor Party, serving as president of the party in Las Condes, and supported Ibañismo and Chilean nationalism.

Subsequently, between 1953 and 1959, He also wrote to President Eduardo Frei Montalva, who had appointed him as a "government delegate," in a letter dated August 20, 1970:

Works Hormazábal González was a prolific author on topics of territorial history, boundary disputes, and Chilean politics. His works focus on defending Chile's territorial integrity against Argentine claims and analyzing key historical periods.

El problema del levantamiento aéreo y la organización de los servicios del levantamiento de la carta. (1929) Tabla de logaritmos a cinco decimales (con apéndice y explicaciones) (1943) El problema del levantamiento de la carta del territorio. Berlín, encrucijada del mundo. Palena y California. Tierras chilenas. (Estudio técnico de un problema limítrofe.) (1961) Palena y California, tierras chilenas. (Second edition.) (1965) Chile frente a Argentina en la controversia ya centenaria de sus límites (1968) Chile, una patria mutilada. (1969) Cuando la sangre regó la tierra visión crítica de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (1973) El Canal de “Beagle” es territorio chileno. (1977) ¡Dialogando con Argentina! 1819-1978. (Síntesis histórica de las desmembraciones territoriales de Chile.) (1979) Breve historia de los tratados de 1856 y 1881. (1984) Por los caminos de la democracia 1920-1940. (1989)

Honors For his service in the Army and his diplomatic work abroad, he received several distinctions, including the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, awarded by the Government of Panama.