Germán Correa

In this Chilean name, the first or paternal surname is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.
Germán Correa
Minister of the Interior
In office
11 March 1994 – 20 September 1994
PresidentEduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle
Preceded byEnrique Krauss
Succeeded byCarlos Figueroa Serrano
Minister of Transport and Telecommunications
In office
11 March 1990 – 28 September 1992
PresidentPatricio Aylwin
Preceded byCarlos Silva Echiburú
Succeeded byGermán Molina Valdivieso
Personal details
Born (1939-12-26) 26 December 1939
Santiago, Chile
Party
SpousePaula Desbordes
ChildrenFour
Parent(s)Victor Correa
Elena Diaz
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSociologist

Víctor Germán Correa Díaz (born 26 December 1939) is a Chilean politician and sociologist who served as minister during the christian-democratic presidencies of Patricio Aylwin and Eduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle.[2][3][4]

Political career

UP and Pinochet era

He worked at the Office of the President of the Republic during the government of Salvador Allende (1970–1973), serving as head of the Planning Department of the National Advisory Council for Social Development.[5]

Between 1974 and 1989, during the Military dictatorship of Chile, he worked in various international organisations linked to the United Nations (UN).

Between 1983 and 1987, he served as national councillor and president of the Popular Democratic Movement (MDP), which sought to remove General Augusto Pinochet from power.[6] In 1985, he was one of the members of the political group Intransigencia Democrática.

Concertación governments

Following the return to democracy, he served as Minister of Transport and Telecommunications under President Patricio Aylwin.[7][8]

He later became president of the Socialist Party of Chile and, for a brief period, Minister of the Interior under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, becoming the first Socialist to hold that office since the return to democracy; the previous Socialist interior minister had been Carlos Briones during Allende’s government.[9]

Between 2002 and 2003, he served as general coordinator of the emerging Urban Transport Plan for Santiago, at the request of President Ricardo Lagos.[10][11]

In 2004, he ran as a candidate for mayor of La Florida, narrowly losing to Pablo Zalaquett of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI).[12][13]

Between May 2006 and August 2010, he served as chairman of the board of the state-owned Empresa Portuaria de Valparaíso (EPV).[14][15]

In mid-2014, he was appointed president of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Urban Mobility by President Michelle Bachelet.[16]

On 1 July 2016, he assumed the presidency of the board of the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE) for a two-year term.[17]

In January 2020, Germán Correa led a group of nearly 70 militants who resigned from the Socialist Party, after 58 years of membership.[18][19]

In the 2025 Chilean general election, he ran for the Senate of Chile in the Valparaíso Region as an independent candidate supported by the Social Green Regionalist Federation. He was not elected.[20]

References

  1. ^ "La dura carta de los 70 militantes que renunciaron al PS". Canal 13. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Germán Correa, exministro y electo miembro del comité central PS: 'Por el bien del país debemos saber cuántos 'San Ramón' hay en el PS'". La Tercera. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Ex Ministro Germán Correa inauguró año académico del Magíster de Ingeniería de Transporte". Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Ex ministro Germán Correa arremete contra Insulza por crisis del PS: 'Parece que no anda en la calle, no sé en qué Chile vive'". Emol. 6 July 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Autoridades de la Unidad Popular". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 25 December 1993. p. C4.
  6. ^ "El MDP y la oposición política". La Tercera (in Spanish). 14 June 2006. p. 4.
  7. ^ "Designación de ministros". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 10 January 1990. p. C4.
  8. ^ "Nuevas autoridades". La Tercera (in Spanish). 18 January 1990. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Cambio de gabinete". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 24 December 1993. p. A1.
  10. ^ "Plan de Transporte Urbano". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 27 April 2006. p. B9.
  11. ^ "Germán Correa acusó irresponsabilidad al poner en marcha el Transantiago". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
  12. ^ "Elecciones municipales en La Florida". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 1 November 2004. p. C23.
  13. ^ "Germán Correa aseguró que la Concertación recuperará La Florida". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 5 October 2004.
  14. ^ "Designaciones en EPV". La Tercera (in Spanish). 29 April 2006. p. 58.
  15. ^ "Cambios en empresas públicas". La Segunda (in Spanish). 6 August 2010. p. 46.
  16. ^ "Comisión asesora de movilidad". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 11 June 2014. p. C1.
  17. ^ "Germán Correa asume presidencia de EFE". ADN Radio (in Spanish). 1 July 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  18. ^ "Casi 70 militantes renuncian al PS y acusan ausencia de proyecto político ante la crisis". La Tercera (in Spanish). 16 January 2020.
  19. ^ "Una renuncia: pesar y esperanza". El Mostrador (in Spanish). 18 January 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  20. ^ "Resultados de las Elecciones Presidenciales y Parlamentarias 2025". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 December 2025.
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