He was born in
Buenos Aires, the son of General Alonso Baldrich. He was one of the original members of the Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Buenos Aires, created and directed in 1940 by
Ricardo Levene. His intellectual circle included Hector Bernard, Adolfo Silenzio de Stagni, Federico Ibarguren, and Ramón Doll. Baldrich was appointed financial comptroller of
Tucumán Province by the de facto President, General
Pedro Pablo Ramírez, in 1943, and in 1944 he was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Instruction by President Farrell, replacing
conservative Catholic writer
Gustavo Martinez Zuviría. His administration continued the nationalist elitist line Martínez began, but was more geared to
Hispanism and
economic nationalism. He appointed as Assistant Secretary of Education, working with Adolfo Silenzio de Stagni; during the Revolution of 1943, he adhered himself to
Peronism. Following
Juan Perón's return from exile in 1973, he was appointed education minister of
Buenos Aires Province by the newly elected Governor,
Oscar Bidegain. Baldrich died in Buenos Aires in 1982. ==Bibliography==