Renato Laemmermann

Renato Ludwig Laemmermann Monsalves (25 August 1916 – 28 May 2006) was a Chilean lawyer, farmer, and politician.

He served as deputy between 1965 and 1973, representing the Radical Party.

He was born in Victoria on 25 August 1916, the son of Enrique Laemmermann Gaus and Julia Monsalves Hermosilla. He married Augusta Espinoza Maureira in Bulnes on 21 April 1961. They had no children.

He studied at the German School of Concepción and the Internado Nacional Barros Arana. He first enrolled in the Law School of the University of Chile, then transferred to the University of Concepción, where he earned a law degree with the thesis "General Theory of Evidence." He was sworn in as a lawyer on 4 October 1944.

He practiced as a local police judge in Lota between 1946 and 1965; served as attorney for the Municipal Defense of Coronel from 1948 to 1965; was notary public in Cañete in 1978; and later notary and registrar in Talcahuano (1982–1992).^[1] He also engaged in agriculture, managing a forestry estate.

In 1940 he was vice-president of the University of Concepción Student Federation. He was a founder of the Radical Youth of Chile (JR) in Concepción; delegate to the Radical Conventions of La Serena in 1939 and the Province of Arauco; and national assemblyman.

In the 1965 election, he was elected deputy for the 18th Departmental Group (Lebu, Arauco and Cañete), representing the Radical Party, for the term 1965–1969, receiving 2,999 votes.^[2] He sat on the Permanent Committee on Agriculture and was a member of the Special Investigative Commission “Camelot Plan” (1965–1966) and the Special Investigative Commission on the Steel Industry (1965–1966).

In the 1969 election, he was reelected deputy for the same district, serving from 1969 until the dissolution of Congress in 1973. He joined the Permanent Committee on National Defense and the one on Physical Education and Sports. He was part of the Special Investigative Commission on Colonia Dignidad (1967–1968). In 1970, he joined both the Radical Parliamentary Committee and the Independent Parliamentary Committee. He later became part of Democracia Radical.

In the 1973 election, he ran again for deputy in Arauco but was not elected, obtaining 11.7% of the vote (4,206 ballots).^[3]

Thanks to his efforts, the Araucanian Museum of Cañete was built.

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