Johannes Kaiser

Johannes Kaiser in 2022.

University of Innsbruck (History, 2001-2004; Derecho, 2014-2019; Political sciences, 2001-2015 ; without leaving)

### Party/Faction

Partido Republicano (2019 - 2022)Independent (2022-)

### Academic Titles

Politician
Political activist

**Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen** (Santiago de Chile, January 5, 1976) is a Chilean libertarian, YouTuber and politician, member of the Republican Party of Chile. Since March 2022, he has been a deputy of the Republic representing district n° 10 of the Santiago metropolitan region, for the 2022-2026 legislative period.

He runs the channel El Nacional-Libertário, although he has had little activity recently, due to his work as a deputy. Part of the channel's operation was decentralized, with several contributors.

## Biografía

He was born in the Chilean capital, into a third-generation Chilean-German family. He is the son of Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents-von Hohenhagen Haensgen. He is the brother of lawyer, political analyst and writer Axel Kaiser, Las Condes councilor Vanessa Kaiser and Leif Kaiser, leader of the Asociación Chilena del Rifle.

He studied his first years at the Colegio Alemão in Santiago, Villarrica and Temuco while moving between these cities. He finished the last two years of high school at Escuela Militar del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins. In 1995, he enrolled in law at Finis Terrae University in Santiago, which he did not complete, and then traveled to Germany to study at the University of Heidelberg, studies which he also did not complete.

He later went to live in Innsbruck (Austria), where he carried out various work activities, as a waiter, bricklayer, used car salesman, restaurant manager and freelance sports journalist for the Wacker Innsbruck football club, among other jobs.

According to his biography, he studied different career subjects such as political science, philosophy, sociology, economics, history and law at the University of Innsbruck without finishing any of the registered careers or professorships. The University of Innsbruck indicated in April 2022 that Kaiser was only enrolled in three courses: political science (2001-2015), history (2001-2004) and law (2014-2019), adding that he did not graduate from any of them.

In September 2013, he created "El Nacional-Libertario", his YouTube channel, where he has more than 100,000 subscribers. Through this platform, he has been broadcasting a political program since November 2016, and published the documentary he made, about the family history of former Army brigadier, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, called "Los cossacos y Miguel Krassnoff: the untold story" .

In 2017 he became close to politician José Antonio Kast and in 2019 he became a member of the political party founded by Kast, the Republican Party.

## Carrera política

In 2021, he moved to Chile to run as a candidate for deputy in the parliamentary elections for the Republican Party in the 10th district of the metropolitan region. He obtained 26,709 votes, being elected.

On November 24, three days after the elections and as part of the campaign for the second presidential round, José Antonio Kast announced that Johannes Kaiser would be transferred to the supreme court of the Republican Party, to evaluate his permanence, due to the controversy that arose after the viralization of a video in which Kaiser criticized women's suffrage, before that, the elected deputy announced his resignation from the Party.

On March 11, 2022, he assumed the role of deputy. He is currently a member of the standing committees on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples; National defense; Interior Government and Regionalization; and Ethics and Transparency. He remained on the Republican Party bench as an independent despite having resigned from the party.

On September 9, 2022, he announced his return to the Republican Party.

## Political thought

He defines himself as a paleolibertarian, socially conservative, and is against abortion; Furthermore, he claims to be a miniarchist regarding the role of the state and a liberal in the economic sphere. He is in favor of free gun ownership in Chile.

He claims that the trial received by some soldiers for human rights violations (currently incarcerated in the Punta Peuco prison) is not legitimate, since, according to Kaiser, they were carried out "with only one statement as evidence". Furthermore, he was against the closure of the Cordillera prison. Likewise, the deputy is in favor of the release of Miguel Krassnoff.

## Disputes

### Comments on El Mercurio and sayings about the Pisagua Case

In 2019, before the anniversary of the 1973 coup, Kaiser claimed responsibility for the actions of the Armed Forces in a paid insert in the newspaper El Mercurio titled "On 11/09/1973, Chile was saved from being what Venezuela is today" . Generating controversy among family members of detainees, disappeared and tortured during the dictatorship. Furthermore, in viral videos, Kaiser's opinion on those shot in Pisagua during the Military Government is collected, indicating “that they listen to him well in the Supreme Court. These people were well shot in Pisagua. Well executed (...) It's not just anything, because I'm going to tell you one thing: of all those people who were shot in Pisagua, who were ordered to be shot after General Forestier's Council of War, the vast majority did not she was involved in subversive groups or was part of drug cartels that had laboratories in the north. In other words, they were either drug traffickers, or they were leftists, or they were a mixture of both." In light of their statements, the Association of Relatives of the Politically Executed and Disappeared Detainees of Iquique and Pisagua issued a press release questioning their statements, in addition to announce the right to reserve the right to sue Kaiser.

On September 24, 2022, the Chilean Court of Appeals accepted the protection appeal filed by the family of missing detainee Michael Nash against Johannes Kaiser, for which he asked the deputy and the company YouTube to remove the videos from his channel he referred to them to the missing inmates of the Pisagua Prison Camp and those executed for political reasons during the Pinochet dictatorship, as these statements were not related to the right to "freedom of expression", as defended by Kaiser's lawyer.

### Vaccine Declarations

In March 2021, through his Twitter account, Kaiser hinted that inoculation with Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine would be the factor in the increase in COVID-19 cases, when a PCR test was carried out, which came back positive. , which was determined to be false since the vaccine mechanism works with the virus inactivated, therefore it does not move, reproduce or infect the body under any circumstances.

Again in March 2022, he criticized Minsal's measures, considering them restrictive. After questioning him about health obligations in Congress, he declared that “the vaccine is not mandatory, they cannot require it. It wouldn't be cool. It cannot be required as a requirement to participate in the democratic process (...) I don't know why it is a problem. If you want to make the vaccine mandatory, you will have to go through Congress and present your data. Explain why it is necessary. There is still a democracy in Chile”, he continued, also stating that he would not take booster doses of the vaccine. “What bothers me is the lack of scientific and technical debate. This debate means that there are two conflicting positions and then we will see what comes out of that.”

### Anti-illegal immigration poster

During his candidacy for deputy in 2021, Kaiser presented an anti-immigrant poster with the phrase "those who do not contribute are deported", described as "racist" by sectors, which was also considered plagiarism of a Swiss People's Party poster, described as "xenophobic" and "extreme right".

### Statements on women's suffrage

On November 23, 2021, days after the parliamentary elections in which he was elected deputy, the audiovisual recording of a live broadcast on YouTube from 2016 went viral, where Kaiser, in the context of sexual assaults perpetrated by some immigrants, went viral. He made statements that immigrants were "rapists", in addition to sarcastically questioning the right to women's suffrage, arguing that "what happens is that they have a kind of schizophrenia, women stop going to the park to run because they are afraid of the immigrants who can rape them, but they continue to vote for the same parties that are bringing these people in and you really wonder if the right to vote [for women] was a good idea.» After going viral, Kaiser indicated that these statements were sarcasm Following this, criticism and disgust were expressed across most of the political spectrum. Hours later, tweets from Kaiser described as misogynistic resurfaced on his personal account, stating that "for women like you, they didn't want to give you the right to vote": "They ask me why I don't have a partner and the answer is obvious, there are almost no women who want to stay at home to serve and give pleasure to their husband, and to keep a woman empowered I prefer to become a fagot"; "62% of women have a fantasy of being raped"; or "the only reason feminists wanted the right to vote is because, since they didn't have a husband, they couldn't force them to vote as they wanted", in addition to a video where Kaiser declares that "Chile is paying the price they said generations of Chileans that Chile is the most unequal and terrible country in the world, where all women are being brutally and bestially oppressed - (interrupted by his interlocutor) and raped - of course, and raped, especially the ugliest ones (. ..) Because if you noticed that there is a group of especially ugly women where I would actually say that "if you are the rapist" then you practically deserve a medal of honor from the US Congress for courage in the face of the enemy." Due to several criticisms of these opinions, Johannes proceeded to delete his Twitter account.

As a result of the controversy generated, on November 24 José Antonio Kast, leader of the Republican Party, confirmed that Kaiser would be referred to the group's supreme court to evaluate his permanence; Faced with this situation, on the same day, Johannes Kaiser announced his indeterminate resignation from the aforementioned political community.2

Furthermore, a group of far-left deputies announced the "Kaiser Law" initiative, a project that seeks to incorporate into the Penal Code the crime of "apology for rape, for anyone who encourages, promotes or incites sexual violence, with penalties ranging from fines to dismissal from public authority".

## Electoral History

### 2021 parliamentary elections

* **2021 parliamentary elections, candidate for deputy for district 10 (La Granja, Macul, Ñuñoa, Providencia, San Joaquín y Santiago)**

## See also

* Paralelo 33
* El Nacional-Libertário
* Amanecer Libertario
* Peter Turguniev

## References

1. ↑ Johannes Kaiser, Wikipedia. Access: <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes\_Kaiser\_(pol%C3%ADtico)> accessed on March 2, 2023.

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