Germán Vergara Donoso

Germán Vergara Donoso was a Chilean lawyer, political scientist, diplomat, and politician. He served as a Minister of State — in the portfolio of [Ministry of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile)|Foreign Affairs (Chile)|Foreign Affairs] — during the administrations of Presidents Gabriel González Videla and Jorge Alessandri.

Family and education

Vergara was born in Constitución on 6 March 1902, the son of judge Ramón Antonio Vergara Rodríguez and Elena Donoso Bascuñán. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in Santiago, and his higher education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chile, where he qualified as a lawyer in 1924.
He later undertook a postgraduate specialization diploma at the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Paris, France. He never married and had no children.

In 1921, Vergara entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of his country. He served as secretary in Brussels in 1925 and in Lima in 1929. Between 1932 and 1938, during the second administration of President Arturo Alessandri Palma, he held the position of Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs.
In 1946, he served as a delegate of Chile to the United Nations.
He was head of the Ministry's legal advisory office between 1944 and 1947. On 2 August of the latter year, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Gabriel González Videla, serving two terms: until 7 July 1948, and later for twenty days in February 1950.
Eight years later, he was again appointed to the post, this time by President Jorge Alessandri. He left office on 26 August 1961.