Luis Gneiting

Luis Roberto Gneiting Dichtiar (22 February 1968 – 25 July 2018) was a Paraguayan politician.

Luis Gneiting
Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Paraguay
In office
May 24, 2018  July 25, 2018
PresidentHoracio Cartes
Preceded byMarcos Medina
Succeeded byTBD
Governor of Itapúa Department
In office
August 15, 2013  August 15, 2017
Preceded byDavid Benjamín Franz Kugler
Succeeded byFederico Vergara
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay
In office
August 15, 2008  August 15, 2013
Mayor of Carmen del Paraná
In office
1997–1999
Personal details
Born
Luis Roberto Gneiting Dichtiar

(1968-02-22)February 22, 1968
Carmen del Paraná, Paraguay
DiedJuly 25, 2018(2018-07-25) (aged 50)
Ayolas, Paraguay
Political partyColorado Party
Spouse(s)
Delia Edith Floris Cardozo
(div. 2012)

Liliana Beatriz Benítez (?–2018; his death)
ChildrenGuillermo Gneiting Floris
Viviane Gneiting Floris
Alejandro Vera y Aragón Benítez[1][2]
Alma materUniversidad Nacional de Asunción
OccupationVeterinarian

His parents were Miguel Gneiting and Irene Dichtiar.[3][4] Prior to his political career, Luis Gneiting was a veterinarian.[3] The younger Gneiting succeeded his father as mayor of Carmen del Paraná in 1997 and served until 1999.[3] In 2008, Luis Gneiting was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. He left the legislature to assume the governorship of Itapúa Department. Gneiting stepped down in 2017, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Livestock in May 2018.[5] He died in a plane crash on 25 July 2018, aged 50. Gneiting and deputy agriculture minister Vicente Ramírez were traveling from Ayolas to Asunción.[5]

Gneiting was survived by his second wife Liliana Beatriz Benítez,[6] and children from his first marriage to Delia Edith Floris Cardozo, whom he divorced in April 2012.[3]

References

  1. This last son of his, known for being a well-known YouTuber from Paraguay, dedicated a tribute video to his late father on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46bOtPQrSPOhQCjWK9fzgw
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFWqI-X944
  3. "Un veterinario que se convierte en acaudalado y busca la Vicepresidencia". ABC Color (in Spanish). 10 October 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  4. "Falleció la madre de Luis Gneiting". La Nación (in Spanish). 26 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  5. Desantis, Daniela (26 July 2018). "Paraguay agriculture minister among four dead in plane crash: official". Reuters. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  6. "Esposa reconoce el cuerpo del ministro Luis Gneiting". Última Hora (in Spanish). 26 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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