Eduardo Schaerer Vera y Aragón (2 December 1873 – 12 November 1941) was a Swiss-Paraguayan businessman, publisher, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Republic of Paraguay between 1912 and 1916. Schaerer was succeeded by Manuel Franco on 15 August 1916. Ex-president Schaerer continued in public service as a senator in 1921 and founded the newspaper La Tribuna (The Tribune) in 1925. Schaerer was born in Caazapá, on 2 December 1873 to Santiago Schaerer and Elizabeth Vera y Aragon. His father was a notable Swiss colonizer (from Vordemwald, Aargau), and the special character that distinguished Schaerer was inherited from him. Schaerer married to Matilde Heisecke (daughter of Christian Heisecke, a German diplomat and consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). She had seven children with him, including Arturo Schaerer Heisecke, director of La Tribuna after his father and a recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a journalism award of the Columbia University, in 1953. His life He completed his elementary education in his hometown, and high school education at the National High School of the Capital. From a young age he went into business, politics, and journalism. He was one of the founders of the newspaper El Diario with Gualberto Cardús, Adolfo Huerta, and Adolfo Riquelme, and founder of La Tribuna, a newspaper of his own property that was for over half a century the head of the national press. He died in Buenos Aires on 12 November 1941. His government Eduardo Schaerer had been seen as the only one capable of guiding the country through the difficult circumstances that became apparent in the future. He assumed the presidency of the Republic from 15 August 1912 until 15 August 1916. His cabinet was composed of: Eusebio Ayala, Foreign Affairs; Manuel Gondra, War and Navy; Félix Paiva, Justice, Culture and Public Instruction; Gerónimo Zubizarreta, Finances and José P. Montero, Interior. There were some changes later: Gondra went to the chancery, Colonel Patricio A. Escobar War and Navy; Eusebio Ayala to Treasury, Culture and Public Instruction and Belisario Rivarola to Justice. Works With his government began a period of political stability and economic prosperity that lasted nearly a decade. In 1912, Dr. Manuel Franco was appointed rector of the University. In 1913, the resignation of Dr. Teodosio González was accepted to his chair of Criminal Law. Simeon Carísimo was director of the National School of Villarrica, where Francisco Ruffinellis began to