Edgardo Boeninger Kausel (23 August 1925 − 13 September 2009) was a Chileanpolitician who served as minister.[2]
Biography
Early life
Born in Santiago de Chile as Edgar Arnold Dagmar Hanz Heinz Böninger Kausel, his parents were Edgar Böninger and Isabel Kausel, who married in October 1924. He had no siblings. When he was ten, his mother left the house tired of a violent husband, so since then Boeninger lived in pensions. His father also left home when he was a teenager.
He actively devoted himself to teaching at the university where he studied, as a professor of geometry and stability at the Faculty of Architecture. Then, in 1955−1960, he finished his Master of Arts in economy at the University of Chile.
From 1951 to 1961, he was a traffic engineer for the Municipality of Santiago.
Political career
Close to Frei and oppositor to Pinochet
Edgardo Boeninger in 1969 running to be the head of the University of Chile.
From 1964 to 1969, Boeninger entered the State of Chile as Director of Budgets for PresidentEduardo Frei Montalva (1964−70). Then he taught, becoming dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Chile in 1965. Later, in 1969, he was elected as rector of that university, position he held until the 1973 military coup.
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