An interview with Dr. Enrique Kirberg

Abstract

Dr. Enrique Kirberg spent twenty years as a professor of illumination engineering at the University of Chile. In 1968 (two years before the election of President Salvadore Allende) he was elected Rector (President) of the Universidad Tecnica del Estado in Santiago. He served in that capacity for five years until he was abruptly removed during the military coup in Chile in 1973 and spent the next two years in prison without charges of any kind and without a trial. He was released on September 11, 1975 as a result of extensive public pressure from many sources outside Chile, including a letter from CSIT to the Chilean government.