Johannes Kaiser

Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen (born 5 January 1976) is a German-Chilean YouTuber and politician. He was a member of José Antonio Kast's Republican Party, from which he resigned in 2021 after several of his misogynistic comments went viral.

Since 2017, he began to be known for his YouTube channel El Nacional-Libertario, a conservative-libertarian space where he openly supported Kast for his 2017 and 2021 presidential campaigns.

He defines himself as paleolibertarian, socially conservative, being against abortion; In addition, he claims to be a minarchist regarding the role of the State and a liberal in economic matters. He is in favor of the free carrying of weapons in Chile.

Early life and family

He was born in Santiago to Hans Kaiser and Rosmarie Barents-von Hohenhagen, third-generation German immigrants. He is the brother of Axel Kaiser, a Chilean libertarian ideologue, Vanessa Kaiser, a Chilean scholar and activist, and Leif Kaiser, leader of the Chilean rifle association.

He studied his early years at the German School in Santiago, Villarrica, and Temuco as he moved between those cities. He finished his last two years of high school at the Escuela Militar del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins. In 1995 he enrolled in a law degree at the Finis Terrae University in Santiago, and then traveled to Germany to study at the University of Heidelberg.