It was a joke of debatable taste when Filinto Müller, senator and former police chief, died in the Varig 820 flight accident in Paris on July 11, 1973. In the memory of historian Francisco Carlos Teixeira, she said that “Filinto was so bad that to die took 200 people together”-true, 122.
In a recent honor at the Mato Grosso Legislative Assembly, investments of the military, born in Cuiabá, roads and state education were praised. His national biography, however, is marked by the torture of his police to personalities such as Pagu, Graciliano Ramos, Carlos Marighella and Harry Berger. It was also a fundamental piece in the extradition of Olga Benário to the Nazi and the repression of students and indigenous people.
There are, in Brazil, at least 44 streets and avenues in honor of the military, most of them in the Midwest. Not to mention Getúlio Vargas and Eurico Gaspar Dutra, but remembered for occupying the presidency, he is among the most venerated Estado leaders in public spaces. It is behind Agamenon Magalhães and Benedito Valadares, who, after the Vargas regime, were elected governors of their respective states, Pernambuco and Minas Gerais.
Survey Sheet Based on addresses of the harvested in the 2022 census indicates that there is. The Minister of War Eurico Gaspar Dutra has at least 500 honors on streets around the country.
Without Getúlio, Estado Novo’s hard core military men add up to at least 1,030 addresses.
Several lawsuits claim the change of name of. In relation to the Estado Novo ( 1937 to 1945), the requests are directed to just a few names. For historians, this difference is explained because it is part of the Getulist legacy is linked to labor achievements – which motivates much of the honors to him – but also for the absence of a more explicit condemnation of the Estado Novo while.
Filinto Müller is one of the names that risk being erased from the plates. Despite its regional political appeal, its history at the national level is closely linked to bloodthirsty repression. For more than ten years, the name of the Filinto Müller wing at the Federal is tried to change. A project by Senator Randolfe Rodrigues has been stopped since 2023.
In 2015, his name was a list of streets to be, but to this day he names a road in São Rafael Park, in the east of São Paulo.
In Mato Grosso, his homeland, there are 26 addresses. 14 more in Mato Grosso do Sul, neighboring state. In the MT Legislative Assembly, the highest honor of the house is called Commendation Filinto Müller.
Mariana Jofffe, historian and professor at UDESC (Santa Catarina State University), says that the honors come from conservative sectors, in a region notorious to represent the interests of agribusiness, but points out the importance of the local heritage of the surname. “In addition to a long -term parliamentary performance [foi senador por quatro mandatos]his family acted politically in the state, his father was mayor of Cuiabá in the new republic and his federal intervention brothers in the state during the Vargas period. “
Already in the national look, the historian Claudia Viscardi, from UFJF (Federal University of Juiz de Fora), says that the most striking aspect of her career is the resistance in defense of the authoritarian states of exception. “He is a prominent member of the political police during the entire Estado Full, not only against communists, but against students and any opponent of Vargas. Then he sets up the Belic structure of the post-1964. This is impressing me most, torture as a political agenda.”
Müller actively served two dictatorships. Military, he participated in the Senhority Movement and was part of the Prestes column, from which he was expelled by diversion of resources. The authorization of the extradition of Olga Benário, wife of Luiz Carlos Prestes, pregnant with Germany, years later, would have been a revenge, according to Daniel Aarão Reis, biographer of Prestes. “It was also a petty revenge by Filinto Müller, for being denounced in 24, and there with founded reasons, such as a fracture and thief by the commanders of the column, and then expelled,” he wrote.
The military was recruited by Getúlio to join the provisional government in 1930. He became an inspector of the Federal District Civil Guard and, in presenting results in the repression of the opposition, became chief political police of the Federal District, which in practice gave him power over the whole country.
“The Special Police, of which he was boss, were characterized by extreme brutality. Torture until he could no longer. He even opens the two concentration camps that are built in Brazil, one in Ilha Grande and the other in Fernando de Noronha, where people are sent in the most terrible situations possible. He commands this police for about ten years,” says Francisco Carlos Teixeira, UFRJ, scholar of the period.
“A notorious case was that of Harry Berger, who was brutally tortured and defended by jurist and lawyer Sobral Pinto based on the Animal Protection Act, such was the harvest against the communists,” Joffily recalls.
The Cuiabano remained in government until 1943, when he was fired by Vargas after showing a weapon to the then interim minister of Justice, Vasco Leitão Cunha. He is replaced by Alcides Etchegoyen, grandfather of Sérgio Etchegoyen, former GSI minister in the Michel Temer government. After the episode, he is invited by Vargas to take over the National Council of Justice.
In 1945, it helps to found the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in Mato Grosso, a caption that housed interveners linked to Vargas. He is elected senator in 1947 and reelected in 1954. In 1960, with the bipartisanship imposed by the Arena, which supports the regime, and is elected senator twice. When he died, he fulfilled his fourth term, presided over the house and the national leadership of the subtitle.
METHODOLOGY
The report used the IBGE public places base, updated for the, to reach all the names of unique addresses in Brazil through the Python programming language. From the result, the intersection was made with a list of names cited in the book “The Silent Bop” by Aspasia Camargo. The relevance of the selected was also validated by historians who research the Estado Novo. The names Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Benedito Valadares, Agamenon Magalhães, Filinto Müller, Pedro Aurélio de Góis Monteiro, Francisco Campos, Olimpio Mourão Filho, Almeiro de Moura, José Meira de Vasconcelos, Newton Cavalcanti and Aristides Guilhem were considered
In addition to the exact correspondences with each full name, variations of spelling and compositions with surnames and office were also filtered. Cases of more common names were excluded in which manual context check was not possible to discard possible homonyms.
Because IBGE data is up to date until 2022, some names of public places may have changed.
