Hermann Tertsch | |
---|---|
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Constituency | Spain |
Personal details | |
Born | Hermann Leopoldo Tertsch y del Valle de Lersundi 9 April 1958 Madrid, Spain |
Political party | Vox (2019–present) |
Other political affiliations | PCE-EPK (1977) |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) |
Ekkehard Tertsch Felisa Maria de Iciar del Valle Lersundi y del Valle |
Relatives |
Ana Palacio (cousin) Loyola de Palacio (cousin) |
Occupation | Journalist - Politician |
Hermann Leopold Tertsch del Valle-Lersundi (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxeɾman ˈteɾtʃ]; born 9 April 1958) is a Spanish journalist, lawyer and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament for the Vox party since 2019, integrated within the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).
Tertsch was born in Madrid on 9 April 1958, [1] the son of Ekkehard Tertsch (1906–1989), an Austrian-German diplomat and journalist who was a close collaborator of Josef Hans Lazar , also an Austrian diplomat and journalist and the chief Nazi propagandist in Spain during World War II. [2] Through his mother Felisa del Valle-Lersundi he is a cousin of Loyola de Palacio and Ana de Palacio. [3] He was a member of the Communist Party of the Basque Country in his youth. [4]
Based in Vienna, Tertsch became a correspondent for the Agencia EFE in 1982, covering Central and Eastern Europe. [5] Soon after, in 1983, he began to work for the newspaper El País as correspondent to Bonn. [5] He chronicled the Yugoslav Wars, featuring a marked anti-Serbian point of view. [6] He became a regular columnist and served for a time as the newspaper's op-ed editor. [5] During the years he became a regular radio guest for the Cadena SER, Radio Nacional de España and Onda Cero. [7]
He left El País in 2007, becoming a political opinion writer for the conservative newspaper ABC soon after. [7] He was also hired by Telemadrid, and became the host of the early-morning Diario de la noche in 2008, replacing Fernando Sánchez Dragó. [8] [9] After some weeks of convalescence, as he suffered wounds in what the policial investigation termed as a "bar fight" in a piano-bar in Madrid (the Toni 2) in December 2009, [n. 1] he left the role of host. [9] [10]
In April 2019, Tertsch announced his intention to run for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain with the Vox party. As the party won 3 seats in the election, he was elected MEP. [11] He joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MX) and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT), serving as vice-chair in the later body. [1]
After the announcement of the prospective government formation in Spain under Pedro Sánchez in January 2020 after the November 2019 general election, Terstch, just returned from Bolivia, asked for a military coup in the country to abort what he framed as an "obvious putschist process seeking the demolition of Spain as a nation". [12] [13]
He is a signer of the Madrid Charter, joining an alliance of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox. [14]
Hermann Tertsch | |
---|---|
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Constituency | Spain |
Personal details | |
Born | Hermann Leopoldo Tertsch y del Valle de Lersundi 9 April 1958 Madrid, Spain |
Political party | Vox (2019–present) |
Other political affiliations | PCE-EPK (1977) |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) |
Ekkehard Tertsch Felisa Maria de Iciar del Valle Lersundi y del Valle |
Relatives |
Ana Palacio (cousin) Loyola de Palacio (cousin) |
Occupation | Journalist - Politician |
Hermann Leopold Tertsch del Valle-Lersundi (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxeɾman ˈteɾtʃ]; born 9 April 1958) is a Spanish journalist, lawyer and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament for the Vox party since 2019, integrated within the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).
Tertsch was born in Madrid on 9 April 1958, [1] the son of Ekkehard Tertsch (1906–1989), an Austrian-German diplomat and journalist who was a close collaborator of Josef Hans Lazar , also an Austrian diplomat and journalist and the chief Nazi propagandist in Spain during World War II. [2] Through his mother Felisa del Valle-Lersundi he is a cousin of Loyola de Palacio and Ana de Palacio. [3] He was a member of the Communist Party of the Basque Country in his youth. [4]
Based in Vienna, Tertsch became a correspondent for the Agencia EFE in 1982, covering Central and Eastern Europe. [5] Soon after, in 1983, he began to work for the newspaper El País as correspondent to Bonn. [5] He chronicled the Yugoslav Wars, featuring a marked anti-Serbian point of view. [6] He became a regular columnist and served for a time as the newspaper's op-ed editor. [5] During the years he became a regular radio guest for the Cadena SER, Radio Nacional de España and Onda Cero. [7]
He left El País in 2007, becoming a political opinion writer for the conservative newspaper ABC soon after. [7] He was also hired by Telemadrid, and became the host of the early-morning Diario de la noche in 2008, replacing Fernando Sánchez Dragó. [8] [9] After some weeks of convalescence, as he suffered wounds in what the policial investigation termed as a "bar fight" in a piano-bar in Madrid (the Toni 2) in December 2009, [n. 1] he left the role of host. [9] [10]
In April 2019, Tertsch announced his intention to run for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain with the Vox party. As the party won 3 seats in the election, he was elected MEP. [11] He joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MX) and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT), serving as vice-chair in the later body. [1]
After the announcement of the prospective government formation in Spain under Pedro Sánchez in January 2020 after the November 2019 general election, Terstch, just returned from Bolivia, asked for a military coup in the country to abort what he framed as an "obvious putschist process seeking the demolition of Spain as a nation". [12] [13]
He is a signer of the Madrid Charter, joining an alliance of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox. [14]