Altair Franco Ferreira

When his family returned to Brazil in 1920, Ferreira entered the Military School of Realengo where he was expelled in 1922 for supporting the Tenentist Movement.

[1] It was then that Altair competed for Banco do Brasil and was transferred to Porto Alegre, where he met and married Alba Glória de Barbedo Franco Ferreira, sister of Alceu Barbedo, who was Attorney General of the Republic of Getúlio Vargas in the Estado Novo.

[1] Altair, in 1964, was already serving in Recife as General and had the mission to arrest Governor Arraes, of whom he was a great admirer and refused orders to handcuff him.

President Castelo Branco called him to Brasilia to communicate that he could not promote him because he needed political generals and he was a classic "legalist".

[1] Soon after retiring as a Marshal, Ferreira Franco discovered that he had cancer and soon left the army, spent his last years with great difficulty because of the disease but always continued to dedicate himself to his family.

Colonel von Kleiber, on behalf of General Otto Fretter-Pico , in preliminary conversations with Major Franco Ferreira, (with his back, second from right to left) about the surrender of the 148th Infantry Division to the FEB, after the Battle of Collecchio, on April 29, 1945.