Roberto Víctor Gerlein Echeverría (18 November 1938 – 23 December 2021) was a Colombian lawyer and politician.

A Conservative party politician, he was the longest-serving and most senior Member of the Senate of Colombia having been first elected in 1974.

During his long political career, he served also as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives (1968–1974), as the 10th Colombian Minister of Economic Development, and as the 42nd Governor of Atlántico.

[1][2] He died in Barranquilla on 23 December 2021, at the age of 83.

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