Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen (born 25 October 1977) is a Chilean

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and

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who served as a councilwoman of

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, since 2024 is member of the

National Libertarian Party The National Libertarian Party () is a far-right Chilean political party led by Johannes Kaiser. It was founded by five libertarian members of the national conservative Republican Party in the Chamber of Deputies. Its legalisation process by the ...

founded by her brother Johannes.

Biography

Vanessa Kaiser was born from Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German-Chilean family. Her paternal grandparents were Rosemarie Wagner Schilling, a fourth-generation German-Chilean, and her husband, the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst Kaiser Richter, who defined politically as a

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, arrived in Chile as a

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from Wurtemberg in 1936, escaping National Socialist Germany after

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and before

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, having foreseen its outbreak. He married his wife in April 1939 and settled in Villarrica in

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, where he was eventually elected as the 9th mayor of the city, serving between May 1956 and October 1957. Her father was active in the National Party, serving as a youth leader. She has a

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, a

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and a

. She is the

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of the Libertarian Centre of Studies of Chile ( CEL), and a columnist of

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and

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. Her brothers are

Axel Kaiser Axel Kaiser (born 4 July 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist known for his work on classical liberalism and free-market economics. Kaiser is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has published articles in Forbes and othe ...

, a Chilean lawyer and author, of Johannes Kaiser, a congressman and

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, founder of the

, along with three other less prominent siblings. Vanessa has given a lecture at the

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(FPP), where she has denounced

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as the "true bailout f society. She held the

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chair of the Autonomous University of Chile between 2018 and 2021. She was elected as councilman of

in 2021 and resigned in 2022 for personal reasons. She signed the '' Madrid Charter'', a document drafted by the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

Spanish party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of

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involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime."

Works

Books

* with Alejandro Briones Bascuñan: ''Triple corona. Rockford''. Rockford, Chile 2007, . * «En vez de una sola mirada».

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, RIL Editorial, 2011. * «Que no te rompan el corazón».

, 2018. * ''Estudio nietzscheano del Mandamiento: «amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo» (Mateo 22:39)''. Philosophische Dissertation,

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, Santiago 2019. * «El Progresismo y la Cultura de la Muerte. Claves para entender el proyecto ideológico y político de la Nueva Izquierda». Editorial Conservadora, Santiago 2024, ISBN 978-956-6172-32-1.

Articles

* «Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda». Austral University Social Sciences Magazine. N°17. 2017. * «La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política».

Academy of Christian Humanism University The Academy of Christian Humanism University (UAHC) () is a Chilean non-profit private university, founded in 1988 but whose origins date back to 1975 when establishing the Academy of Christian Humanism, led by Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez ( S ...

Scholar Magazine. N°20. Vol. 85. 2015. * «George Kateb, Dignidad Humana». Vol. 32. N°1.

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, 2011. * «El Neomercantilismo como modelo de mercado en Latinoamérica». Pléyade Magazine (

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). N°5. 2010. * With Andrés Dockendorff «Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda». Revista de Ciencias Sociales 2009 Page 75–100 DOI: 10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2009.n17-05

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaiser, Vanessa 1978 births Living people Chilean people of German descent Finis Terrae University alumni University of Chile alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Chilean libertarians Chilean anti-communists Republican Party (Chile, 2019) politicians National Libertarian Party politicians Municipal councillors of Las Condes Chilean political commentators Kaiser family