Daniel Farkas

Daniel Farkas Berger (1924–2004) was a businessman and immigrant in Chile of Hungarian Jewish origin. He is the father of Leonardo Farkas. Farkas and his wife emigrated from Transylvania in the Kingdom of Romania to South America in 1939. Farkas was one of various Hungarians in Chile active in iron mining in southern Atacama Region, in a geological region known as the Chilean Iron Belt. He was one of the businessmen that remained independent at a time when fellow Hungarian Andrés Andai rapidly expanded his mining operations in the 1950s. Daniel Farkas worked at the Compañía Minera Santa Bárbara, a company led by Andai's rival Emérico Letay, where the brothers of his wife, Francisco and José Klein had each a 30% stake. Over time he also developed his own mining businesses and owned among other things a glass bottle factory.

Farkas lost much of his wealth with the nationalization of mines in Brazil in the 1950s and with the Allende administration's nationalization of iron mining in 1971.

During the 1960s he owned a company named CONFAR together with Carlos Conca. Provided by Wikipedia