Hugo Rosende
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Hugo Rosende | |
|---|---|
 Hugo Rosende in 1984. | |
| Minister of Justice of Chile | |
| In office 19 December 1983 – 11 March 1990 | |
| President | Augusto Pinochet |
| Preceded by | Jaime del Valle |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Cumplido Cereceda |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 May 1949 – 15 May 1965 | |
| Constituency | 7th Departmental Grouping, Santiago |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 9, 1916 |
| Died | December 5, 1990 (aged 74) |
| Party | Conservative Party Traditionalist Conservative Party United Conservative Party |
| Spouse | Marta Álvarez Murillo (m. 1942) |
| Children | Five |
| Parent(s) | Francisco Javier Rosende de la Fuente Ana María Subiabre Peña |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| Occupation | Lawyer and politician |
José Hugo Rosende Subiabre (Chillán, 9 May 1916 – Santiago, 5 December 1990) was a Chilean lawyer and politician affiliated with the Conservative movement.
He served as Deputy of the Republic between 1949 and 1965, and later as Minister of Justice during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet between 1983 and 1990.[1]
Born in Chillán on 9 May 1916, he was the son of Francisco Javier Rosende de la Fuente, Minister of the Court of Appeals of Iquique, and of Ana María Subiabre Peña. He studied at the Instituto de Humanidades Luis Campino in Santiago and later earned his law degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 1941 with a thesis titled La promulgación y la publicación de la ley.[2]
He married Marta Álvarez Murillo in 1942 and had five children. Between 1943 and 1983 he served as professor of civil law at both the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Political and professional career
Rosende entered politics as a member of the Conservative Party. He was elected Deputy for the 7th Departmental Group (Santiago) in the 1949 Chilean parliamentary election, being re-elected in 1953, 1957 and 1961. He served on the Permanent Commission on Constitution, Legislation and Justice, and on committees on Education, Defence and Internal Affairs.[1]
He also worked as a legal adviser to President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez (1958–1961). His parliamentary and professional career was marked by his conservative Catholic orientation and his later alignment with authoritarian legal reform.
After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Rosende became a legal adviser to the Military Junta. He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile (1976–1983), a period in which he promoted a return to strict legal positivism and carried out ideological purges within the faculty.[3]