Axel Kaiser

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Kaiser and the second or maternal family name is Barents-Von Hohenhagen.
Axel Kaiser
Born (1981-07-04) 4 July 1981
Santiago, Chile
OccupationAuthor[1]
Academic background
Alma materUniversidad Diego Portales (LL.B.)
University of Heidelberg (LL.M. in Investments, Trade and Arbitration)
University of Heidelberg (M.A. in American studies)
University of Heidelberg (Ph.D. in American studies)
ThesisThe American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution. (2014)
Doctoral advisorKatja Patzel-Mattern, Martin Thunert y Detlef Junker
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical sciences
Philosophy
School or traditionAustrian School
InstitutionsUniversidad del Desarrollo
University of the Andes
Adolfo Ibáñez University
Stanford University

Axel Kaiser (born 4 July 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist known for his work on free-market economics. Kaiser is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has published articles in Forbes and other publications.[2] He is also the author of several books, including The Tyranny of Equality and The Populist Deception.

Biography

Axel Kaiser was born from Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German-Chilean family.[3]

His paternal grandparents were Rosemarie Wagner Schilling, a fourth-generation German-Chilean, and her husband, the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst Kaiser Richter,[3] who defined politically as a Social Democrat, arrived in Chile as a refugee from Wurtemberg in 1936,[4] [5] escaping National Socialist Germany[6] after Adolf Hitler's rise to power and before World War II, having foreseen its outbreak.[7][5]

He married his wife in April 1939[3] and settled in Villarrica in Southern Chile, where he was eventually elected as the 9th mayor of the city, serving between May 1956 and October 1957.[4] His father was active in the National Party, serving as a youth leader.[4]

He is the brother of Vanessa Kaiser, former scholar at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile and director of the libertarian think tank Centro de Estudios Libertarios and former councilor of Las Condes, he is also brother of Johannes Kaiser, a right-wing politician, current member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, founder of the National Libertarian Party[8] from Leif Kaiser, chairman of the Chilean National Rifle Association, along with three other less prominent siblings.[4]

He lived his childhood and adolescence in Villarrica with his brothers.[9][10]

While living in the Chilean capital, he completed a Bachelor of Laws at Universidad Diego Portales. He qualified as a lawyer on 7 August 2007.[11]

In 2009, Kaiser won a Fulbright Program scholarship[12] and travelled to Germany to pursue two master's degrees (Master of Arts in International Law, mention Investments, Trade and Arbitration and another in American Studies)[13][14][15] and a PhD in American Studies in Heidelberg University, with the thesis The American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution.[16][14]

Back in Chile, he was a full professor at Universidad del Desarrollo and the Universidad de los Andes, where he taught a course on Latin American Politics.

A 2017 poll by La Segunda ranked him among the most admired public intellectuals in Chile.[17]

Actress Susana Hidalgo alleged Kaiser used a copyright of hers without gaining permission by using one of her images of the 2019–2020 Chilean protests in the promotional posters of his talks in Mexico in February 2020.[18]

Books

  • El Chile que Viene (2007)
  • La Fatal Ignorancia (2009)
  • La Miseria del Intervencionismo (2012)
  • La Tiranía de la Igualdad (2015)[19]
  • El Engaño Populista (2016), co-author with Gloria Álvarez
  • El Papa y el Capitalismo (2018)
  • La Neoinquisición (2020)
  • The Street Economist: Fifteen economic lessons every citizen should know (El Economista Callejero) (2021)
  • El odio a los ricos (2023), co-author with Rainer Zitelmann
  • Parásitos mentales: Siete ideas progresistas que infectan nuestro pensamiento y sociedad (2024), ISBN 978-956-9948-60-2

Novels

  • El libro de Asgalard (Ediciones Minotauro, 2023), ISBN 978-956-9957-26-0

See also

References

  1. ^ "La madre de todas las batallas". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 10 March 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. ^ Benedikter, Roland; Siepmann, Katja; Zlosilo, Miguel (2015). "The Fiscal Dimension: Greater Fairness at the Price of a Slowing Economy? The Ideological Debate Behind Bachelet's Envisaged Tax Reform". In Roland Benedikter, Katja Siepmann (ed.). Chile in Transition. Prospects and Challenges for Latin America's Forerunner of Development. Springer International Publishing. p. 137. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17951-3. ISBN 978-3-319-17951-3.
  3. ^ a b c "K | Inmigrantes Alemanes al Sur de Chile". www.genealog.cl. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "El universo de los hermanos Kaiser: la historia de la familia que busca llegar a La Moneda" (in Spanish). Interferencia. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference doble was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Los influyentes y polémicos hermanos Kaiser". LitoralPress (in Spanish). El Mercurio. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  7. ^ Antonia Laborde (16 February 2025). "El fenómeno Kaiser, el presidenciable que corrió los márgenes de la extrema derecha chilena" (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  8. ^ Claro, Hernán (17 September 2019). "Johannes Kaiser, el youtuber que pagó parte del polémico inserto en El Mercurio". El Dínamo. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  9. ^ S.A.P, El Mercurio (23 November 2021). "Quién es Johannes Kaiser, el diputado electo de Republicanos que generó polémica por video sobre voto femenino". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  10. ^ DEBATE: Axel Kaiser Vs Eugenia Mancilla en Barometro – pinguino.com (Minute 0:53), retrieved 5 July 2023
  11. ^ "Poder Judicial – Transparencia. RUT 14.121.758-5". www.pjud.cl. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  12. ^ "FULBRIGHT-CONICYT scholarships results. June 2009" (PDF).
  13. ^ "Axel Kaiser". Archbridge Institute. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Ph.D. - Graduates – Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)". www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Alumni – Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)". www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  16. ^ Kaiser, Axel. "Doctoral Thesis" (PDF).
  17. ^ "Académico de la FAE, Alberto Mayol, fue escogido entre los intelectuales públicos más admirados" [FAE academic, Alberto Mayol, was chosen among the most admired public intellectuals]. Facultad de Administración y Economía (in Spanish). Universidad de Santiago. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  18. ^ "Las críticas contra Axel Kaiser por utilizar foto ícono del estallido contraviniendo los derechos de autor". El Mostrador. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  19. ^ Carlos, Rodríguez Braun (10 March 2017). "La tiranía de la igualdad. Por qué el igualitarismo es inmoral y socava el progreso de nuestra sociedad" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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