# Immanuel Holger

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**Immanuel Holger** Torres was a Chilean soldier and politician.

## Career

He served as Undersecretariat of the [Chilean Navy](/source/Chilean_Navy) between 1937 and 1938. During his tenure he passed the "cruise ship law".[1]

Additionally, he served as [minister of the Interior](/source/Interior_minister) under the government of president [Gabriel González Videla](/source/Gabriel_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Videla), in two terms: from August 2, 1947, to July 7, 1948,[2] and from August 25, 1948, to February 27, 1950. He shut down the miners strikes in [Lota](/source/Lota,_Chile) in October 1947, declaring the provinces of [Concepción](/source/Concepci%C3%B3n,_Chile) and [Arauco](/source/Arauco,_Chile) in a state of emergency.[3] He was accused of a constitutional violation in November 1947, which was rejected by a wide majority in the [Chamber of Deputies](/source/Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Chile).[4]

Later, he was head of the Naval Mission in Washington, D.C. (1950)[5] and [intendant](/source/Intendant) of the province of [Concepción](/source/Concepci%C3%B3n,_Chile) (1958).

## References

1. Zunino, Daniella & Lüders, Marily (19 March 2005). ["La Ley del Cobre en la mira, los disparos de los economistas"](http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id=%7B2e390310-5ea6-49e7-9aa4-ffea58041c89%7D). *El Mercurio*. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

1. [*Anales de la República*](https://books.google.com/books?id=r0__gjfl4y8C&pg=PA622) (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. 1951. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

1. Pavilack, Jody (2011). [*Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile's Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zBXXfccy9fsC&pg=PA224). Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03769-1. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

1. Loveman, Brian & Lira, Elizabeth (2000). [*Las ardientes cenizas del olvido: vía chilena de reconciliación política 1932–1994*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3MwldDWoZxUC&pg=PA123) (in Spanish). Lom Ediciones. ISBN 978-956-282-287-9. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

1. Fagandini González, Piero (2012). ["Chilarco"](http://revistamarina.cl/revistas/2012/2/fagandini.pdf). *Revismar 2/2012*. '***(2)***

Preceded by: Guillermo Troncoso Palacios Subsecretario de Marina 1937–1938 Followed by: Carlos Herrera Acevedo

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