Arturo Oscar Schaerer Heisecke was a Paraguayan businessman, publisher and journalist.
10 Facts About Arturo Schaerer
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Arturo Schaerer was born October 7,1907, in Asuncion, Paraguay to Eduardo and Matilde Arturo Schaerer.
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Arturo Schaerer was a grandson of Santiago Schaerer, a Swiss colonizer who hailed originally from Vordemwald, Switzerland and of Christian Heisecke, a native of Hamburg, Germany, a consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and The Netherlands in Paraguay.
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Arturo Schaerer was, like his father, a dual citizen of Switzerland and Paraguay.
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On December 31,1925, his father Eduardo Arturo Schaerer founded the newspaper La Tribuna, which thereafter and for more than five decades would be the badge of the Paraguayan press.
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Arturo Schaerer had to resort many times to ambassadors and international contacts to keep the newspaper running.
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Arturo Schaerer attempted to introduce the first television channel in Paraguay, before the National Television System, but the government did not grant permission.
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Arturo Schaerer was married to Maria Angelica Ayala Cabeda, Uruguayan and daughter of Araminto Ayala, General Consul of Uruguay in Paraguay, and Maria Angela Cabeda, daughter of Rafael Cabeda, renowned Brazilian political, liberator of slaves and great exponent of the Federalist Revolution in Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil.
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Arturo Schaerer had five children, Myriam Schaerer, Adalia, Arturo Rafael, Araminto and Eduardo W Schaerer.
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Arturo Schaerer remained the director of La Tribuna until 15 May 1972, when he was succeeded by Carlos Ruiz Apezteguia, a journalist and husband to his daughter Myriam Schaerer and intense partner and manager of La Tribuna for more than two decades.