Manuel Aguirre Geisse

Manuel Aguirre Geisse (1909 – 2001) was a Chilean politician who served as a minister.

He served as Undersecretary of the Interior, a position he held at least in 1938 and again in 1943. He later served as Secretary-General of Government from 1945 to 1946, during the presidency of Juan Antonio Ríos, and briefly as Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Assistance in February 1950 under President Gabriel González Videla.

In the private sector, he worked as secretary-general and deputy general manager of the Compañía de Acero del Pacífico (CAP).

Family

He was born in 1909, the son of Manuel Aguirre Formas and Clara Geisse Hubenthal. He married Eugenia Mandiola Garland, with whom he had five children: Carlos Enrique, María Inés, Carmen Eugenia, Manuel Carlos and Juan Guillermo. He later married Ilma Cross Ducoing; they had no children.