Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

In Chile, from 1967 to 1973, between the ending of the government of President Frei Montalva and the government of President Allende, a cultural movement was born from a few Chilean bands that emerged playing a unique fusion of folkloric music with heavy psychedelic influences.

The island and municipality of Frei was merged with Kristiansund on 1 January 2008.

During the administration of Eduardo Frei Montalva, a unified uniform was introduced for all public and private schools and other education centers.

One of Haakon's most famous victories was the Battle of Rastarkalv ( near to Frei ) in 955.

The host of Frei Schnauze was the German comedian Dirk Bach.

Frei means " free ", and Burg, like the modern English word " borough ", was used in those days for an incorporated city or town, usually one with some degree of autonomy.

During World War Two, Hildesheim was chosen ( based on its inhabitants devotion to Adolf Hitler ) to be the indoctrination and further training location for a group of 27 British Prisoner of war defectors as members of what was known as the " British Frei Korps " SS.

Eduardo Frei Montalva ( January 16, 1911 – January 22, 1982 ) was a Chilean political leader.

Eduardo Frei Montalva was born in Santiago on January 16, 1911, the son of Eduard Frei Schlinz, a Swiss-born ethnic German from Austria, and Victoria Montalva Martínez.

His eldest son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000.

He was minister of Public Works in 1945, and in 1949, Frei was elected senator for Atacama and Coquimbo.

Frei Montalva was offered once more the candidacy for president of the Republic in the 1958 elections.

Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez was elected president while Eduardo Frei Montalva took only third place.

On September 4, 1964, having one of the highest turnouts in Chilean history, Eduardo Frei Montalva was elected President of the Republic of Chile.

One area of reform given high priority by the Frei Administration was the fostering of networks of local, self-help organisations ( especially among the “ unorganised ” residents of the shantytowns ), which was placed under a national supervisory council.

On 25 March 1969, the ESO site at La Silla was finally formally inaugurated by President Eduardo Frei Montalva.

The agricultural minimum wage was also raised to the same level as its urban equivalent, and an agrarian reform law signed by Frei in July 1967 made all farms of more than eighty “ basic ” hectares liable to expropriation.

In November 1973 Frei wrote an historic letter to Mariano Rumor, President of the International Christian Democrats, endorsing the Armed Forces intervention and denouncing what he alleged was an attempt by Allende to impose a Communist dictatorship in Chile.

Between 1973 and 1977, Eduardo Frei Montalva was invited to different countries and participated in conferences, such as: The Altlantic Conference in 1976.

In 1981, Frei was suffering from chronic acid reflux, stemming from a hiatal hernia, a very uncomfortable but essentially low risk condition.

Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (; born June 24, 1942 ) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000.

* Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle ( born 1942 ), Chilean politician and civil engineer, president of Chile from 1994 to 2000, son of the above

Matthias Frei better known as Matt Frei ( born 26 November 1963 ) is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, D. C. correspondent for Channel 4 News, and now a presenter.

Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany.

María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela ( born September 17, 1950 ), is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations.

Alexander Frei ( born 15 July 1979 in Basel ) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays for Swiss Axpo Super League club FC Basel.

Frei Luís de Sousa ( Manoel or Manuel de Sousa Coutinho ) ( 1555 – 5 May 1632 ), Portuguese monk and prose-writer, was born at Santarém, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho.

Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (), born 1965 in Odessa, Soviet Union, is a Russian writer and artist who has also published under the pseudonym Max Frei () Martynchik studied at the philological department of Odessa State University, but dropped out without graduating.

On January 22, 1982, Eduardo Frei Montalva died in Santiago, six days after turning 71.

Judge Alejandro Madrid based his decision on a report that determined that Frei was administered low doses of thallium and mustard gas over an extended period while he was hospitalized at the Santa María Clinic in Santiago, and that these toxic substances had the effect of decreasing Frei's immune system, making him too weak to survive his surgery ".

The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform.

In December 1993, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva, led the Concertación coalition to victory with an absolute majority of votes ( 58 %).

* 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician and engineer, 32nd President of Chile

* 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician ( d. 1982 )

** Chilean presidential election, 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58 % of the vote.

* January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician and former President ( b. 1904 )

In 1964, once more as the FRAP candidate, he lost again, polling 38. 6 % of the votes against 55. 6 % for Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei.

On 26 October, President Eduardo Frei named General Carlos Prats as commander in chief of the army to replace René Schneider.

This included nationalization of large-scale industries ( notably copper mining and banking ), and government administration of the health care system, educational system ( with the help of an U. S. educator, Jane A. Hobson-Gonzalez from Kokomo, Indiana ), a programme of free milk for children in the schools and shanty towns of Chile, and an expansion of the land seizure and redistribution already begun under his predecessor Eduardo Frei Montalva, who had nationalized between one-fifth and one-quarter of all the properties listed for takeover.

After the 1970 election, the Track I operation attempted to incite Chile's outgoing president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, to persuade his party ( PDC ) to vote in Congress for Alessandri.

Eduardo Frei would then be constitutionally able to run again ( since the Chilean Constitution did not allow a president to hold two consecutive terms, but allowed multiple non-consecutive ones ), and presumably easily defeat Allende.

This ' Group of 19 ' includes Aminata Traoré, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, José Saramago, François Houtart, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Armand Mattelart, Roberto Savio, Riccardo Petrella, Ignacio Ramonet, Bernard Cassen, Samir Amin, Atilio Boron, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Tariq Ali, Frei Betto, Emir Sader, Walden Bello, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

All of these arrangements would later be recast into Supreme Decree No. 1534 of 1967 from the Ministry of the Interior during the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva.

There are also many German speaking Swiss, generally assumed as Germans, of whom some notable descendants are: Presidents Eduardo Frei ( father and son ) and Economist Hernán Büchi.

His eldest son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, also became president of Chile ( 1994 – 2000 ).